Home » 2026 » 7月

Monthly Archives: 7月 2026

News for our work about antiferromagnetic ordering enhanced magnetic damping in Mn2Au/CoFeB bilayers, recently published in APL

We published a paper entitled “Antiferromagnetic ordering enhanced magnetic damping in Mn2Au/CoFeB bilayers” in [Applied Physics Letters 129, 022401 (2026)]. Antiferromagnets hold significant potential for spintronic devices owing to their insensitivity to external magnetic fields and the absence of stray fields. In this work, we investigated the magnetic dynamics of Mn2Au/CoFeB bilayers via ferromagnetic resonance. We found that the Néel temperature of 2-nm-thick Mn2Au is as low as 40 K, in sharp contrast to that of bulk Mn2Au which exceeds 1000 K. As the temperature decreases from 160 to 10 K, the magnetic damping α of the CoFeB layer increases from 0.013 to 0.047, accompanied by a synchronous increase of the exchange coupling field. Such an enhancement of damping is attributed to the spin angular momentum transfer from CoFeB to Mn2Au, mediated by the AFM–FM exchange coupling which is strengthened by the antiferromagnetic ordering of Mn2Au at low temperatures. Our study provides deeper insights into AFM/FM dynamics and spintronic storage technology. Congratulations to Donghang Xie and co-workers!