Fig. 4: The stability of in-plane chiral Néel ___domain wall. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: The stability of in-plane chiral Néel ___domain wall.

From: Reducing crystal symmetry to generate out-of-plane Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

Fig. 4

a–c Sketch of cycloid spin-spiral, helical spin-spiral and in-plane spin-spiral, respectively. Micromagnetic simulations of chirality dependence on the strength of (d–f) conventional Néel-type DMI in out-of-plane magnetized system and (g–i) OOP-DMI in in-plane magnetized system. j, k Co thickness dependent compound SPLEEM images in Co/3 ML Pd/W(110) system. Scale bars are 1 µm. The DW formed a zigzag structure to reduce the dipole energy on the head-to-head or tail-to-tail position (k). l Experimental dependence of in-plane and out-of-plane chirality on the FM film thickness. The out-of-plane chirality data is adapted from ref. 42.

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