Stable Magnetic Skyrmion States at Room Temperature Confined to Corrals of Artificial Surface Pits Fabricated by a Focused Electron Beam
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- Takao Matsumoto
- Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Yeong-Gi So
- Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University, 1-1 Tegata Gakuen-machi, Akita 010-8502, Japan
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- Yuji Kohno
- JEOL Limited, 1-2, Musashino 3-chome, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan
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- Yuichi Ikuhara
- Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Naoya Shibata
- Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Stable confinement of elemental magnetic nanostructures, such as a single magnetic domain, is fundamental in modern magnetic recording technology. It is well-known that various magnetic textures can be stabilized by geometrical confinement using artificial nanostructures. The magnetic skyrmion, with novel spin texture and promise for future memory devices because of its topological protection and dimension at the nanometer scale, is no exception. So far, skyrmion confinement techniques using large-scale boundaries with limited geometries such as isolated disks and stripes prepared by conventional microfabrication techniques have been used. Here, we demonstrate an alternative technique confining skyrmions to artificial nanostructures (corrals) built from surface pits fabricated by a focused electron beam. Using aberration-corrected differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy, we directly visualized stable skyrmion states confined at a room temperature to corrals made of artificial surface pits on a thin plate of Co
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- Nano Letters
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Nano Letters 18 (2), 754-762, 2018-01-23
American Chemical Society (ACS)
