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Abstract : Beyond domain walls and vortices, the seek for ultra small magnetic textures now
focuses on skyrmions. These kind of nanobubbles with a given chirality correspond to
topological states as it is impossible to switch continuously back to the uniform
magnetization state. Predicted in the 90’s [1] they have only been observed recently in
ultrathin magnetic films in contact with high spin-orbit coupling underlayer [2] where a chiral
interaction named Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya is induced at the interface. The properties of those
skyrmions are extremely promising from the point of view of applications (new ultra dense
memories [3]) as well as on the fundamental point of view (in particular for the study of
topological Hall effect, which describes the deviation of the electron trajectory in the vicinity
of a topological texture [4]).
The goal of this thesis is to study skyrmion stabilized in ultrathin films. Due to the small size,
scanning probe techniques will be the technique of choice: magnetic force microscopy,
ballistic electron emission microscopy (scanning tunneling microscopy based technique [5])
and scanning nano magnetometry (recently developed technique in collaboration with
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton [6]). The films will be grown in our UHV evaporation setup, with
complete freedom on materials and thicknesses. Starting from the study of the skyrmion
structure as a function of the different parameters (applied magnetic field, materials and
layer thicknesses), the ultimate goal is to manipulate them (nucleation and annihilation,
motion).
The work will be co-directed by Stanislas Rohart (CR CNRS).
Référence :
[1] A. N. Bogdanov and D. A. Yablonskii, Sov. Phys.–JETP 68, 101 (1989)
[2] S. Heinze et al. Nature Phys. 7, 713 (2011).
[3] J. Sampaio, SR, AT et al., Nat. Nanotechnol. (2013)
[4] T. Schultz et al. Nature Phys. 8, 301–304 (2012).
[5] A. Bellec, SR, AT et al. Europhys. Lett. 91, 17009 (2010)
[6] L. Rondin, SR, AT et al. Nature Com 4, 2279 (2013)