Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida-type interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures
- Authors
- Kim, Taehyun; Cha, In Ho; Kim, Yong Jin; Kim, Gyu Won; Stashkevich, Andrey; Roussigne, Yves; Belmeguenai, Mohamed; Cherif, Salim M.; Samardak, Alexander S.; Kim, Young Keun
- Issue Date
- 2-6월-2021
- Publisher
- NATURE RESEARCH
- Citation
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, v.12, no.1
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 1
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/127869
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41467-021-23586-y
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Abstract
- The manipulation of magnetization with interfacial modification using various spin-orbit coupling phenomena has been recently revisited due to its scientific and technological potential for next-generation memory devices. Herein, we experimentally and theoretically demonstrate the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction characteristics penetrating through a MgO dielectric layer inserted between the Pt and CoFeSiB. The inserted MgO layer seems to function as a chiral exchange interaction mediator of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction from the heavy metal atoms to ferromagnet ones. The potential physical mechanism of the anti-symmetric exchange is based on the tunneling-like behavior of conduction electrons through the semi-conductor-like ultrathin MgO. Such behavior can be correlated with the oscillations of the indirect exchange coupling of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida type. From the theoretical demonstration, we could provide approximate estimation and show qualitative trends peculiar to the system under investigation. The mechanism of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in heavy metal-ferromagnet heterostructures is debated. Here, the authors show the oscillating behaviour of the interaction as a function of the MgO spacer layer thickness, supporting the interlayer exchange coupling mechanism of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida type.
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