Magnetic Nano-skyrmion Lattice Observed in a Si-Wafer-Based Multilayer System

Anika Schlenhoff; Philipp Lindner; Johannes Friedlein; Stefan Krause; Roland Wiesendanger; Michael Weinl; Matthias Schreck; Manfred Albrecht

doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b01146

Magnetic Nano-skyrmion Lattice Observed in a Si-Wafer-Based Multilayer System

ACS Nano. 2015 Jun 23;9(6):5908-12. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01146. Epub 2015 May 12.

Authors

Anika Schlenhoff¹, Philipp Lindner¹, Johannes Friedlein¹, Stefan Krause¹, Roland Wiesendanger¹, Michael Weinl², Matthias Schreck², Manfred Albrecht²

Affiliations

¹ †Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 11, 20355 Hamburg, Germany.
² ‡Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 1, 86135 Augsburg, Germany.

PMID: 25964990
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01146

Abstract

Growth, electronic properties, and magnetic properties of an Fe monolayer (ML) on an Ir/YSZ/Si(111) multilayer system have been studied using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. Our experiments reveal a magnetic nano-skyrmion lattice, which is fully equivalent to the magnetic ground state that has previously been observed for the Fe ML on Ir(111) bulk single crystals. In addition, the experiments indicate that the interface-stabilized skyrmion lattice is robust against local atomic lattice distortions induced by multilayer preparation.

Keywords: SP-STM; multilayer systems; silicon wafer; skyrmions; spintronics.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't