Ab-initio study of magneto-ionic mechanisms in ferromagnet/oxide multilayers
| Autor: | Di Pietro, Adriano, Pachat, Rohit, Diez, Liza Herrera, van der Jagt, Johannes W., Ravelosona, Dafiné, Durin, Gianfranco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.174413 |
| Popis: | The application of gate voltages in heavy metal/ferromagnet/Oxide multilayer stacks has been identified as one possible candidate to manipulate their anisotropy at will. However, this method has proven to show a wide variety of behaviours in terms of reversibility, depending on the nature of the metal/oxide interface and its degree of oxidation. In order to shed light on the microscopic mechanism governing the complex magneto-ionic behaviour in $\text{Ta/CoFeB/}\text{HfO}_2$, we perform ab-initio simulations on various setups comprising $\text{Fe/O, Fe/HfO}_2$ interfaces with different oxygen atom interfacial geometries. After the determination of the more stable interfacial configurations, we calculate the magnetic anisotropy energy on the different unit cell configurations and formulate a possible mechanism that well describes the recent experimental observations in $\text{Ta/CoFeB/}\text{HfO}_2$. Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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