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2015 IEEE Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)

DOI: 10.1109/intmag.2015.7156512

American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 6(106), p. 062406, 2015

DOI: 10.1063/1.4908177

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Thermally activated domain wall motion in [Co/Ni](111) superlattices with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

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Abstract

Field-induced magnetization dynamics in a [Co/Ni] superlattice exhibiting strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is studied using Kerr microscopy. We report domain wall velocity over 8 decades within thermally activated, transitory, and flow dynamical regimes. At low field, the thermally activated regime is characterized by dendritic domain growth that differs from the creep mechanism usually observed for the interaction of domains wall with a 2D random pinning potential for layers grown by sputtering. This result is explained by the epitaxial nature of the [Co/Ni] superlattices involving a single-type defect. The transition from the thermally activated to the flow regime is characterized by a reduction of the density of non-reversed domains which exists after domain wall displacement.