Nanomagnetism of Magnetoelectric Granular Thin-Film Antiferromagnets.

ABSTRACT: Antiferromagnets have recently emerged as attractive platforms for spintronics applications, offering fundamentally new functionalities compared with their ferromagnetic counterparts. Whereas nanoscale thin-film materials are key to the development of future antiferromagnetic spintronic technologies, existing experimental tools tend to suffer from low resolution or expensive and complex equipment requirements. We offer a simple, high-resolution alternative by addressing the ubiquitous surface magnetization of magnetoelectric antiferromagnets in a granular thin-film sample on the nanoscale using single-spin magnetometry in combination with spin-sensitive transport experiments. Specifically, we quantitatively image the evolution of individual nanoscale antiferromagnetic domains in 200 nm thi

SUBMITTER: Appel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6422036 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature