Room temperature biskyrmions in non-chiral thin film MnNiGa

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Skyrmions are topologically protected, nano-sized objects which have been shown to exist in the spin textures of a range of magnetic materials and are currently under intense investigation due to their potential in spintronic applications. Recently, biskyrmions, a new type of skyrmion formed by the combination of two skyrmions of opposed spin helicities, have been observed in thin plates of MnNiGa using Lorentz TEM. Here we propose to use polarised neutron reflectometry to establish the existence of room temperature biskyrmions in sputtered MnNiGa thin films. This would constitute a significant advance towards the use of skyrmions in practical applications.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87840647
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87840647
Provenance
Creator Mr Ben Nicholson; Dr Murray Wilson; Dr Christy Kinane; Dr Marta Crisanti; Professor Peter Hatton; Mr Max Birch; Dr Aidan Hindmarch; Dr Kevin Franke; Professor Don Paul; Dr Andrew Caruana; Mr Luke Turnbull
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-11-24T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-11-29T08:30:00Z