Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion in Multilayer Nanowires
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
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Publications
Basith M
(2015)
Lorentz TEM Imaging of Stripe Structures Embedded in a Soft Magnetic Matrix
in Physical Review Applied
Benitez M
(2015)
Engineering Magnetic Domain-Wall Structure in Permalloy Nanowires
in Physical Review Applied
Benitez MJ
(2015)
Magnetic microscopy and topological stability of homochiral Néel domain walls in a Pt/Co/AlOx trilayer.
in Nature communications
Ferguson C
(2015)
Metastable magnetic domain walls in cylindrical nanowires
in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Hrabec A
(2016)
Spin-orbit interaction enhancement in permalloy thin films by Pt doping
in Physical Review B
Hrabec A
(2014)
Measuring and tailoring the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in perpendicularly magnetized thin films
in Physical Review B
Krajnak M
(2016)
Pixelated detectors and improved efficiency for magnetic imaging in STEM differential phase contrast.
in Ultramicroscopy
McVitie S
(2015)
High Resolution Quantitative Lorentz Microscopy
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
McVitie S
(2015)
Aberration corrected Lorentz scanning transmission electron microscopy
in Ultramicroscopy
Mihai A
(2013)
Effect of substrate temperature on the magnetic properties of epitaxial sputter-grown Co/Pt
in Applied Physics Letters
| Description | Control of domain walls in nanowires with reduced stray field effects which demonstrated significantly reduced wall width compared to walls observed in single layer wires. This provides a better system for potential spintronics applications. |
| Exploitation Route | Possible applications may be in memory devices (e.g. racetrack) or logic applications. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Description | Carnegie PhD Scholarship |
| Amount | £71,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Carnegie Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | FETOPEN-1-2014 - FET-Open research projects |
| Amount | € 3,396,439 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 665095 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2015 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF |
| Amount | € 195,454 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 746958 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Standard grant proposal |
| Amount | £635,158 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M018504/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2015 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Synthetic Antiferromagnetic Skyrmions |
| Amount | £733,741 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T006811/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | Pixelated Lorentz imaging |
| Description | Improved efficiency of magnetic imaging in the TEM |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Has resulted in improved imaging in subsequent project work and publications in the field of magnetic imaging. |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304399116300183 |
| Title | High resolution quantitative Lorentz microscopy. |
| Description | The advent of aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy has led to considerable improvements in the field of high resolution electron microscopy imaging. In this paper we show how these developments are applied to imaging of magnetic structure in field free or low field conditions. Whilst the capability of increased spatial resolution is demonstrated on magnetic layers with a width of *lt; 20nm we also consider how a pixelated detector can be used to dramatically increase the efficiency of the detection of the magnetic signal variation in the presence of strong diffraction contrast. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Magnetic microscopyand topological stability of homochiral Neel domain walls in a Pt/Co/AlOx trilayer |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Description | Imaging of scanning gate microscopy sensor |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided quantitative imaging of magnetic sensors using Lorentz microscopy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided sensor for imaging in the TEM. |
| Impact | Joint publication in APS journal. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Colloquium (Durham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colloquium at University of Durham to mostly post-graduate students. Dissemination of capabilities of microscopy at Glasgow and examples of types of materials that can be studied. Good level of engagement with audience and discussion of possible joint projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Colloquium (Osaka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colloquium presentation to mainly postgraduate students at Osaka Prefecture University. Good level of discussion to look at possible future samples and how they might be analysed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Colloquium at University of Dundee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk to mainly undergraduate and postgraduate students taking physics degrees at the University of Dundee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/physics/ |
| Description | Colloquium at University of St Andrews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colloquium to staff and students in Physics at the University of St Andrews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://talks.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php?talks/talk_details/1152 |
| Description | Core to Core meeting in Jaca, Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentations and discussion sessions for project partners on chiral science. Delegates from Japan, UK, Russia and Spain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kotai/chiral/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Meeting-JACA-2019_Final.pdf |
| Description | IOP Magnetism Winter School (York, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Expert presentations in various fields of magnetism, engagement with PG students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/magnetism-winter-school/programme/ |
| Description | IOP Magnetism Winter School (York, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UK school for postgraduate students to learn about magnetic materials, techniques and theory from established members of the UK magnetism community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/magnetism-winter-school/ |
| Description | IOP Magnetism Winter School, York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | School for UK PG students. Two presetnations from Glasgow (D McGrouther and S McVitie) on FIB methods and Loretnz microscopy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/physics/magnetism-winter-school/ |
| Description | International Workshop at Ringberg Castle, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on "Current Topics in Transmission Electron Microscopy" to discuss methods of electron microscopy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fkf.mpg.de/6833185/2019-ringberg-workshop |
| Description | Joint European Magnetics Symposia (Glasgow, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Large European conference on magnetism. Presented work in a number of sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://jems2016.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | MMM conference (New Orleans, USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work in dedicated sessions sparking discussion and informing of future directions in conjunction with worldwide activities in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=20214 |
| Description | Magnetism School (York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Institute of Physics Magnetism school run annually. Presented work on Lorentz microscopy with examples illustrated from a range of projects. Good feedback from students with possibility of interaction during the course of their PhD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| URL | http://ukmagsoc.org/events/iop-magnetism-winter-school/ |
| Description | Magnetism conference (Leeds) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised by the Institute of Physics and IEEE Magnetics Society Magnetism 2015 is a conference primarily for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland magnetism communities. I participated in this as an attendee and presented a poster. Good networking event and chance to speak to UK colleagues in a relatively small conference setting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://magnetism2015.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | Magnetism conference (San Diego) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 13th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference took place in January 2016, San Diego, California. I attended conference as session chair and co-author of presentation of work on domain walls in thin films. Very large conference and met with many international colleagues to discuss current research on domain walls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.magnetism.org/?page=past_conferences |
| Description | Magnetism symposium (Hiroshima) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Core-to-Core International Meeting - ?Mag2016 Symposium. I presented a talk at this symposium to international colleagues, the meeting was focused on aspects of chiral magnetism and I included work carried out on relevant RCUK projects. This lead to a useful discussion on how future work might be taken forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/kotai/KibanS/t005/t005/chimag2016.html |
| Description | Microscience Microscopy Congress 2019, Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Microscopy congress with parallel sessions and public awareness activities and exhibitions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-information/previous-congresses.html |
| Description | Microscopy conference (Manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | National biennial conference for the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics. Invited talk given on developments in Lorentz microscopy. Good discussion with colleagues working if similar and related fields of functional materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.mmc2015.org.uk/about/emag/ |
| Description | NANOSENS Strategic Workshop (Iasi, Romania) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strategic Workshop dedicated to materials science, microsensors for engineering and medical applications and biosensors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://nanosens.phys-iasi.ro/node/27 |
| Description | Project meeting (Hamburg) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MAGicSky-FET consortium first progress report meeting. Presented work from previous RCUK funded project relevant to this project on skyrmions. Good level of debate and discussion about characterisation of domain wall structures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://magicsky-fet.eu/ |
| Description | Public event (Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Part of Explorathon at Glasgow Science Centre. Set up research group display including hands on microscope and videos of processing of samples. Allowed public to see some of the high end research into materials with transmission electron microscopy - they got a chance to see images from optical microscope which we could then show at much higher magnification using electron microscopy. By and large the public were very impressed with this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.explorathon.co.uk/ |
| Description | SPIE Spintronics IX (San Diego, USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dedicated conference session with larger conferenceon spintronics with experts from various materials and characterisation backgrounds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://spie.org/OP16N/conferencedetails/spintronics |
| Description | Scientific equipment users meeting (Glasgow, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Worldwide users meeting for practitioners of aberration corrected transmission electron microsope organised by Japanese company JEOL. Exchange of ideas and sharing of good practise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.jeol-arm.eu/arm-owner-group/ |
| Description | Scottish Universities Physics Alliance annual gathering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference style meeting for Scottish University workers to present their work and network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.supa.ac.uk/node/588 |
| Description | Scottish University Physics Alliance promotional video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated in promotional video for the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) to be shown at the American Physical Society meeting in Boston March 2019. I (S McVitie) took part as theme leader for Materials and Condensed Matter Science theme. As well as being shown at the meeting, the video will be widely available on the internet after the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.supa.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Seminar at Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, University of Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give seminar at the University of Edinburgh and have discussions with colleagues there from Physics and Chemistry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.csec.ed.ac.uk/seminars |
| Description | UK Magnetism 2017 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference for UK magnetics researchers, invited talks from overseas. Presentations and discussion with colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://magnetism2017.iopconfs.org/home |
| Description | Visit by UK Member of Parliament to University of Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Following on from event earlier in the year (STEM for Britain) at the UK houses of parliament, the local UK MP visited the Materials and Condensed Matter Research group at the University of Glasgow to see the facilities and talk to researchers about activities in materials science in Glasgow. MP indicated meeting was very helpful and informative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/patrick-grady/4432 |
| Description | Winter School on Condensed State Physics, St Petersburg, Russia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was part of Winter School on Condensed State Physics 2018 held in St Petersburg Russia. A presentation was given entitled "An introduction to the methods of TEM for materials characterization". This was to inform the audience of the TEM and FIB capability at the University of Glasgow and the areas of materials science being undertaken. The audience was mostly Russian and so allowed a large group of people to be made aware of the work at Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.fks2018.ru/fks_program/ |
| Description | Workshop (Romaina) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 7th International Workshop on Amorphous and Nanostructured Magnetic Materials This workshop brought together scientists in a number of fields working in the area of magnetic materials. I presented an invited talk on microscopy of magnetic materials. As a consequence of this meeting exploratory collaborations have been set up with two other UK groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://nanosens.phys-iasi.ro/node/16 |
| Description | York-Tohoku Summer School in Spintronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Program of expert talks to mostly PG students most from York and Tohoku Universities. Presentation from University of Glasgow on facilities including TEM and FIB. Questions and discussions. Met with colleagues in Japan (Tohoku) and have explored some collaborative possibilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://yorktohoku2017.wixsite.com/summerschool |
| Description | York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on "New-Concept Spintronics Devices" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of international scientists to report on work in spintronics. Discussion and networking activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ah566/symposium/ |