Current-induced domain wall motion in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2
Wenjie Zhang, Tianping Ma, Binoy Krishna Hazra, H. L. Meyerheim, Prajwal Rigvedi, Zihan Yin, Abhay K. Srivastava, Zhong Wang, Gu Ke, Shiming Zhou, Shouguo Wang, See‐Hun Yang, Yicheng Guan, S. Parkin
Abstract
Abstract The manipulation of spin textures by spin currents is of fundamental and technological interest. A particularly interesting system is the 2D van der Waals ferromagnet Fe 3 GeTe 2, in which Néel-type skyrmions have recently been observed. The origin of these chiral spin textures is of considerable interest. Recently, it was proposed that these derive from defects in the structure that lower the symmetry and allow for a bulk vector Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction. Here, we demonstrate current-induced domain wall motion in Fe 3 GeTe 2 flakes, in which the maximum domain wall velocity is an order of magnitude higher than those reported in previous studies. In heterostructures with Pt or W layers on top of the Fe 3 GeTe 2 flakes, domain walls can be moved via a combination of spin transfer and spin-orbit torques. The competition between these torques leads to a change in the direction of domain wall motion with increasing magnitude of the injected current.