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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 15(96)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.96.155422

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Electrical Detection of Individual Skyrmions in Graphene Devices

Journal article published in 2017 by Francesca Finocchiaro, Jose Luis Lado, Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier ORCID
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Abstract

We study a graphene Hall probe located on top of a magnetic surface as a detector of skyrmions, using as working principle the anomalous Hall effect produced by the exchange interaction of the graphene electrons with the non-coplanar magnetization of the skyrmion. We study the magnitude of the effect as a function of the exchange interaction, skyrmion size and device dimensions. Our calculations for multiterminal graphene nanodevices, working in the ballistic regime, indicate that for realistic exchange interactions a single skyrmion would give Hall voltages well within reach of the experimental state of the art. The proposed device could act as an electrical transducer that marks the presence of a single skyrmion in a nanoscale region, paving the way towards the integration of skyrmion-based spintronics and graphene electronics. ; Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures