Highly efficient in-line magnetic domain wall injector.

Phung, Timothy; Pushp, Aakash; Thomas, Luc; Rettner, Charles; Yang, See-Hun; Ryu, Kwang-Su; Baglin, John; Hughes, Brian et al. · Nano Lett · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrate a highly efficient and simple scheme for injecting domain walls into magnetic nanowires. The spin transfer torque from nanosecond long, unipolar, current pulses that cross a 90° magnetization boundary together with the fringing magnetic fields inherently prevalent at the boundary, allow for the injection of single or a continual stream of domain walls. Remarkably, the currents needed for this "in-line" domain wall injection scheme are at least one hundred times smaller than conventional methods.