We present calculations of head to head domain wall structuresin magnetic strips ofNisoFezo with widths, w , ranging from 75 nm to 500 nm and thicknesses, t , from 1 nm to 64 nm. Neglecting magnetocrystalline and magnetostrictive anisotropy energies, minimization of exchange and magnetostatic energy leads to one of two types of domain wall structures: 'transverse' walls with magnetization at the center of the wall directed transverse to the strip axis and 'vortex' walls where the magnetization forms a vortex at the center of the wall. Calculation of the domain wall energies leads to a proposed phase diagram for head to head domain walls where transverse walls have lower energy when dimensions are less than tcritwcrit z 1 3 0 A / p o M ; .
In ferromagnetic thin films, broken inversion symmetry and spin-orbit coupling give rise to interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. Analytic expressions for spin-wave properties show that the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction leads to non-reciprocal spin-wave propagation, i.e. different properties for spin waves propagating in opposite directions. In favorable situations, it can increase the spin-wave attenuation length. Comparing measured spin wave properties in ferromagnet|normal metal bilayers and other artificial layered structures with these calculations can provide a useful characterization of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.
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