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Separation of heating and magnetoelastic coupling effects in surface-acoustic-wave-enhanced creep of magnetic domain walls

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Shuai, Jintao and Hunt, Robbie G. and Cunningham, John E. and Moore, Thomas A. (2023) Separation of heating and magnetoelastic coupling effects in surface-acoustic-wave-enhanced creep of magnetic domain walls. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1336

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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have significant potential for energy-efficient control of magnetic domain walls (DW) owing to the magnetoelastic coupling effect. However, the dissipation of radio frequency (RF) power in a SAW device can result in heating, which can also affect the DW motion. In this work, the heating of a SAW device consisting of a Pt/Co/Ta thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in between two interdigitated transducers was measured in-situ using an on-chip Pt film as a thermometer within the SAW beampath. The application of SAWs at a center frequency of 48 MHz and a total RF power of 21 dBm resulted in a temperature increase of approximately 10 K within the SAW beam path owing to RF power dissipation. DW velocity in a Pt/Co/Ta thin film was evaluated separately using Kerr microscopy at various temperatures or in the presence of SAWs. With a 10K increase in temperature only, the DW velocity was found to increase from 33±3 µm/s (at room temperature) to 104±8 µm/s under an external magnetic field of 65 Oe. Travelling SAW-assisted DW velocity (116±3 µm/s) is slightly higher than that with a 10 K temperature increase alone, suggesting that the heating plays the major role in promoting DW motion, whereas the DW motion is significantly enhanced (418±8 µm/s) in the presence of standing SAWs indicating that magnetoelastic coupling is more important than heating in this scenario.

Keywords: Magnetism, Surface acoustic waves, Domain wall
Subjects: F000 - Physical sciences > F300 - Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering > Pollard Institute
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > School of Physics and Astronomy
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014002Publication
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/199518/Publication
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/33731/Ethesis
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited: 07 Jul 2023 17:17
URI: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1129

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