Phase Diagram and Activation Energy for Vortex Pinning in Nb/(Co,Pd) Superconductor-Ferromagnet Bilayer

• Authors: Y. Syryanyy , M. Aleszkiewicz , Marta Cieplak , L. Zhu , C. Chien
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Using the magnetoresistance measurements we study the phase transition line and the activation energy for vortex pinning in superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer, built of a ferromagnetic Co/Pd multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and a niobium film, with insulating layer in-between to eliminate proximity effect. The domain width is reversibly pre-defined using the angle-dependent demagnetization. We find that the enhancement of the activation energy for vortex pinning by magnetic domains is rather modest, by a factor of about 2.1. We attribute this to large domain width, and large dispersion of the domain width in this bilayer.

Keywords

EN

74.25.F-; 74.25.N-; 74.25.Wx; 74.62.-c; 74.70.-b; 74.78.-w; 74.78.Fk; 75.70.Kw; 75.70.-i

Discipline

• 75.70.-i: Magnetic properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces(for magnetic properties of nanostructures, see 75.75.-c)
• 74.78.-w: Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures
• 74.78.Fk: Multilayers, superlattices, heterostructures
• 75.70.Kw: Domain structure (including magnetic bubbles and vortices)(for domain structure in ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity, see 77.80.Dj)
• 74.70.-b: Superconducting materials other than cuprates(for cuprates, see 74.72.-h; for superconducting films, see 74.78.-w)
• 74.25.Wx: Vortex pinning (includes mechanisms and flux creep)
• 74.25.F-: Transport properties
• 74.25.N-: Response to electromagnetic fields
• 74.62.-c: Transition temperature variations, phase diagrams

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 126
• Issue: 4a
• Pages: A-123-A-127

Dates

published

2014-10

Contributors

author

Y. Syryanyy

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

M. Aleszkiewicz

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

Marta Cieplak

• Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

author

L. Zhu

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

author

C. Chien

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.126.A-123