Nanoscale control of low-dimensional spin structures in manganites

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/6/067504

Abstract

Due to the upcoming demands of next-generation electronic/magnetoelectronic devices with low-energy consumption, emerging correlated materials (such as superconductors, topological insulators and manganites) are one of the highly promising candidates for the applications. For the past decades, manganites have attracted great interest due to the colossal magnetoresistance effect, charge-spin-orbital ordering, and electronic phase separation. However, the incapable of deterministic control of those emerging low-dimensional spin structures at ambient condition restrict their possible applications. Therefore, the understanding and control of the dynamic behaviors of spin order parameters at nanoscale in manganites under external stimuli with low energy consumption, especially at room temperature is highly desired. In this review, we collected recent major progresses of nanoscale control of spin structures in manganites at low dimension, especially focusing on the control of their phase boundaries, domain walls as well as the topological spin structures (e.g., skyrmions). In addition, capacitor-based prototype spintronic devices are proposed by taking advantage of the above control methods in manganites. This capacitor-based structure may provide a new platform for the design of future spintronic devices with low-energy consumption.

Keywords: manganites spin structures nanoscale phase boundary domain wall skyrmion spintronic device capacitor

Received: 31 March 2016
Revised: 18 April 2016
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PACS:	75.75.-c	(Magnetic properties of nanostructures)
	85.70.-w	(Magnetic devices)
	85.75.-d	(Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields)

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Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB920902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61306105 and 51572278), the Information Science and Technology (TNList) Cross-discipline Foundation from Tsinghua National Laboratory, China， and the Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.

Corresponding Authors: Jinxing Zhang
E-mail: jxzhang@bnu.edu.cn

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Jing Wang(王静), Iftikhar Ahmed Malik, Renrong Liang(梁仁荣), Wen Huang(黄文), Renkui Zheng(郑仁奎), Jinxing Zhang(张金星) Nanoscale control of low-dimensional spin structures in manganites 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 067504

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