Effects of Crystalline Disorder on Interfacial and Magnetic Properties of Sputtered Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet Heterostructures
Effects of Crystalline Disorder on Interfacial and Magnetic Properties of Sputtered Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet Heterostructures
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DOI:
10.1021/acsaelm.2c00523
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发表时间:
2022-05
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Nirjhar Bhattacharjee;K. Mahalingam;A. Fedorko;A. Will-Cole;Jaehyeon Ryu;M. Page;M. McConney;Hui Fang;D. Heiman;N. Sun
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Nirjhar Bhattacharjee;K. Mahalingam;A. Fedorko;A. Will-Cole;Jaehyeon Ryu;M. Page;M. McConney;Hui Fang;D. Heiman;N. Sun
. Thin films of Topological insulators (TIs) coupled with ferromagnets (FMs) are excellent candidates for energy-efficient spintronics devices. Here, the effect of crystalline structural disorder of TI on interfacial and magnetic properties of sputter-deposited TI/FM, Bi 2 Te 3 /Ni 80 Fe 20 , heterostructures is reported. Ni and a smaller amount of Fe from Py was found to diffuse across the interface and react with Bi 2 Te 3 . For highly crystalline c- axis oriented Bi 2 Te 3 films, a giant enhancement in Gilbert damping is observed, accompanied by an effective out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy and enhanced damping-like spin-orbit torque (DL-SOT), possibly due to the topological surface states (TSS) of Bi 2 Te 3 . Furthermore, a spontaneous exchange bias is observed in hysteresis loop measurements at low temperatures. This is because of an antiferromagnetic topological interfacial layer formed by reaction of the diffused Ni with Bi 2 Te 3 which couples with the FM, Ni 80 Fe 20 . For increasing disorder of Bi 2 Te 3 , a significant weakening of exchange interaction in the AFM interfacial layer is found. These experimental results Abstract length is one paragraph.