@article{89a9343aa1be4520b396bc934ac767e1,
title = "Concurrent magneto-optical imaging and magneto-transport readout of electrical switching of insulating antiferromagnetic thin films",
abstract = "We demonstrate stable and reversible current induced switching of large-area (>100 μm2) antiferromagnetic domains in NiO/Pt by performing concurrent transport and magneto-optical imaging measurements in an adapted Kerr microscope. By correlating the magnetic images of the antiferromagnetic domain changes and magneto-transport signal response in these current-induced switching experiments, we disentangle magnetic and non-magnetic contributions to the transport signal. Our table-top approach establishes a robust procedure to subtract the non-magnetic contributions in the transport signal and extract the spin-Hall magnetoresistance response associated with the switching of the antiferromagnetic domains, enabling one to deduce details of the antiferromagnetic switching from simple transport measurements.",
author = "F. Schreiber and L. Baldrati and C. Schmitt and R. Ramos and E. Saitoh and R. Lebrun and M. Kl{\"a}ui",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank H. Meer for skillful technical assistance and insightful discussions. L.B acknowledges the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant Agreement ARTES No. 793159. L.B., R.L., and M.K. acknowledge support from the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) No. DFG 266, the DAAD (Spintronics network, Project Nos. 57334897 and 57524834) and all groups from Mainz acknowledge that this work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)-TRR 173-268565370 (Projects A01, A03, A11, B02, and B12). R.L. and M.K. acknowledge financial support from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Commission under FET-Open Grant Agreement No. 863155 (s-Nebula). This work was also supported by ERATO “Spin Quantum Rectification Project” (Grant No. JPMJER1402) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area, “Nano Spin Conversion Science” (Grant No. JP26103005), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (Grant No. JP19H05600), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Grant No. JP20K05297) from JSPS KAKENHI, Japan. R.L. acknowledges the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant Agreement FAST No. 752195. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1063/5.0011852",
language = "English",
volume = "117",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "8",
}