Flexomagnetism and vertically graded Néel temperature of antiferromagnetic Cr2O3 thin films

oleh: Pavlo Makushko, Tobias Kosub, Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Natascha Hedrich, Jiang Li, Alexej Pashkin, Stanislav Avdoshenko, René Hübner, Fabian Ganss, Daniel Wolf, Axel Lubk, Maciej Oskar Liedke, Maik Butterling, Andreas Wagner, Kai Wagner, Brendan J. Shields, Paul Lehmann, Igor Veremchuk, Jürgen Fassbender, Patrick Maletinsky, Denys Makarov

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01

Deskripsi

Flexomagnetism refers to the modification of the magnetic properties of a material due to inhomogeneous strain, and offers a promising pathway to the control and manipulation of magnetism. Here, Makushko et al. explore flexomagnetism in antiferromagnetic thin films of Cr2O3, demonstrating a gradient of the Néel temperature as a result of an inhomogeneous strain.