Sciences et recherche
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à assister au séminaire intitulé « Unravelling the Mystery of Electric Current and Magnetic Field Induced Hysteresis in Magnetic Thin Films using Magnetic Thin Films Reflectivity » vendredi 24 mai à 15h à l'IPCMS. Il sera donné par Paul Steadman, responsable de la ligne I10 au Synchroton Diamond
Abstract :
A study of the electric current induced hysteresis in Pt/CoFeTaB thin films revealed an unexpected behaviour in the hysteresis curves measured using polarised soft X-ray reflectivity [1]. Following a detailed study of the polarisation dependence of the reflected intensity [2] both detailed calculations and experimental data revealed that the switching is Y type (magnetisation switching perpendicular to the current), is very sensitive to external magnetic fields and that, rather bizarrely, only part of the film is switching. In addition the importance of non-linear dependence on the magnetic scattering and its dependence on polarisation and energy have been uncovered experimentally and explained with a very simple model.
[1] D. M. Burn, R. Fan, O. Inyang, M. Tokac¸ L. Bouchenoire, A. T. Hindmarch and P. Steadman, P. (2022). Phys. Rev. B, 106, 094429.
[2] Raymond Fan, Kiranjot, Razan O. M. Aboljadayel, Kalel Alsaeed, Peter Bencok, David M. Burn, Aidan T. Hindmarch and Paul Steadman J. Synchrotron Rad. (2024). 31, 493–507
