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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2022

Three-dimensional skyrmionic cocoons in magnetic multilayers

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Three-dimensional spin textures emerge as promising quasi-particles for encoding information in future spintronic devices. The third dimension provides more malleability regarding their properties and more flexibility for potential applications. However, the stabilization and characterization of such quasi-particles in easily implementable systems remain a work in progress. Here we observe a three-dimensional magnetic texture that sits in the interior of magnetic thin films aperiodic multilayers and possesses a characteristic ellipsoidal shape. Interestingly, these objects that we call skyrmionic cocoons can coexist with more standard tubular skyrmions going through all the multilayer as evidenced by the existence of two very different contrasts in room temperature magnetic force microscopy. The presence of these novel skyrmionic textures as well as the understanding of their layer resolved chiral and topological properties have been investigated by micromagnetic simulations. Finally, we show that the skyrmionic cocoons can be electrically detected using magneto-transport measurements.
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hal-03897390 , version 1 (13-12-2022)

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Matthieu Grelier, Florian Godel, Aymeric Vecchiola, Sophie Collin, Karim Bouzehouane, et al.. Three-dimensional skyrmionic cocoons in magnetic multilayers. Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), pp.6843. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-34370-x⟩. ⟨hal-03897390⟩
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