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Paper

Mechanisms of Electrical Switching of Ultrathin CoO/Pt Bilayers

Christin Schmitt, Adithya Rajan, Grischa Beneke, Aditya Kumar, Tobias Sparmann, Hendrik Meer, Beatrice Bednarz, Rafael Ramos, Miguel Angel Niño, Michael Foerster, Eiji Saitoh, Mathias Kläui

Nano Letters 24(5), 1471-1476, 2024 · 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02890

Used a synchrotron-based microscopy technique to show that electrically switching the magnetic state of an ultrathin antiferromagnetic oxide film involves two competing physical mechanisms, not just one.

Co-author, 4th of 12 authors. Aditya's contribution to this study was the PEEM (photoemission electron microscopy) measurements at the ALBA Synchrotron, used to resolve the coexisting thermomagnetoelastic and spin-orbit-torque switching mechanisms.