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Optimizing Magnetic Force Microscopy Resolution and Sensitivity to Visualize Nanoscale Magnetic Domains
Published on: July 20, 2022
Perpendicular-anisotropy artificial spin ice with spontaneous ordering: a platform for reservoir computing with
Aleksandr Kurenkov1,2, Jonathan Maes3, Aleksandra Pac4,5
1Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. kurenkovalexander@gmail.com.
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Arrays of coupled nanomagnets have wide-ranging fundamental and practical applications in artificial spin ices, reservoir computing and spintronics. However, lacking in these fields are nanomagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with sufficient magnetostatic interaction. This would not only open up unexplored possibilities for artificial spin ice geometries but also enable novel coupling methods for applications. Here, we demonstrate a method to engineer the energy landscape of artificial spin lattices with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. With this, we are able to realize for the first time strongly magnetostatically-coupled 2D lattices of out-of-plane Ising spins that spontaneously order at room temperature on timescales that can be precisely engineered. We show how this property, together with straightforward electrical interfacing, make this system a promising platform for reservoir computing. Our results open the way to investigate the thermodynamics of out-of-plane magnetostatically coupled nanomagnet arrays with novel spin ice geometries, as well as to exploit such nanomagnet arrays in unconventional computing, taking advantage of the adjustable temporal dynamics and strong coupling between nanomagnets.
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