Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction at an Oxide/Ferromagnetic Metal Interface

Physical Review Letters
Weinan LinJingsheng Chen

Abstract

We report on the study of both perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) at an oxide/ferromagnetic metal (FM) interface, i.e., BaTiO_{3} (BTO)/CoFeB. Thanks to the functional properties of the BTO film and the capability to precisely control its growth, we are able to distinguish the dominant role of the oxide termination (TiO_{2} vs BaO) from the moderate effect of ferroelectric polarization in the BTO film, on the PMA and DMI at an oxide/FM interface. We find that the interfacial magnetic anisotropy energy of the BaO-BTO/CoFeB structure is 2 times larger than that of the TiO_{2}-BTO/CoFeB, while the DMI of the TiO_{2}-BTO/CoFeB interface is larger. We explain the observed phenomena by first principles calculations, which ascribe them to the different electronic states around the Fermi level at oxide/ferromagnetic metal interfaces and the different spin-flip process. This study paves the way for further investigation of the PMA and DMI at various oxide/FM structures and thus their applications in the promising field of energy-efficient devices.

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