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Zeissler, Katharina and Mruczkiewicz, Michal and Finizio, Simone and Raabe, Jörg and Shepley, Philippa M. and Sadovnikov, Alexandr and Nikitov, Sergey and Fallon, Kayla and McFadzean, Sam and McVitie, Stephen and Moore, Thomas A. and Burnell, Gavin and Marrows, Christopher H. (2017) Dataset associated with 'Pinning and hysteresis in the field dependent diameter evolution of skyrmions in Pt/Co/Ir superlattice stacks'. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/261

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We have imaged Néel skyrmion bubbles in perpendicularly magnetised polycrystalline multilayers patterned into 1 μm diameter dots, using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy. The skyrmion bubbles can be nucleated by the application of an external magnetic field and are stable at zero field with a diameter of 260 nm. Applying an out of plane field that opposes the magnetisation of the skyrmion bubble core moment applies pressure to the bubble and gradually compresses it to a diameter of approximately 100 nm. On removing the field the skyrmion bubble returns to its original diameter via a hysteretic pathway where most of the expansion occurs in a single abrupt step. This contradicts analytical models of homogeneous materials in which the skyrmion compression and expansion are reversible. Micromagnetic simulations incorporating disorder can explain this behaviour using an effective thickness modulation between 10 nm grain

Keywords:	Physics, Applied Physics, Solid State Physics
Subjects:	F000 - Physical sciences > F300 - Physics F000 - Physical sciences > F300 - Physics > F310 - Applied physics F000 - Physical sciences > F300 - Physics > F320 - Chemical physics > F321 - Solid-state physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > School of Physics and Astronomy
Related resources:	Location Type https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15262-3 Publication https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122811/ Publication
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	14 Feb 2018 12:35
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/312
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Zeissler, Katharina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2698-3493 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Mruczkiewicz, Michal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3666-7072 Slovak Academy of Sciences https://ror.org/03h7qq074 ror Finizio, Simone https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1792-0626 Paul Scherrer Institute https://ror.org/03eh3y714 ror Raabe, Jörg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2071-6896 Paul Scherrer Institute https://ror.org/03eh3y714 ror Shepley, Philippa M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1240-593X University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Sadovnikov, Alexandr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8847-2621 Russian Academy of Sciences https://ror.org/05qrfxd25 ror Nikitov, Sergey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2413-7218 Russian Academy of Sciences https://ror.org/05qrfxd25 ror Fallon, Kayla https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8176-3615 University of Glasgow https://ror.org/00vtgdb53 ror McFadzean, Sam University of Glasgow https://ror.org/00vtgdb53 ror McVitie, Stephen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4511-6413 University of Glasgow https://ror.org/00vtgdb53 ror Moore, Thomas A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-2556 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Burnell, Gavin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-0639 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Marrows, Christopher H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4812-6393 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror Type of data: Dataset Research funders: ERC, EPSRC, EU Seventh Framework Programme, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Russian Science Foundation, Grant of the President of RF Grant numbers: MAGicSky No. FET-Open-665095.103, EP/M000923/1, FP7 SASPRO 609427, 1244/02/01, No. 14-19-00760, MK-5837.2016.9 Publication date: 2017 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: K.Zeissler@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 09 Aug 2024 08:55

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