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Quantifying the Magnetic Interactions Governing Chiral Spin Textures Using Deep Neural Networks.

Jian Feng KongYuhua RenM S Nicholas TeyPin HoKhoong Hong KhooXiaoye ChenAnjan Soumyanarayanan
Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces (2023)
The interplay of magnetic interactions in chiral multilayer films gives rise to nanoscale topological spin textures that form attractive elements for next-generation computing. Quantifying these interactions requires several specialized, time-consuming, and resource-intensive experimental techniques. Imaging of ambient domain configurations presents a promising avenue for high-throughput extraction of parent magnetic interactions. Here, we present a machine learning (ML)-based approach to simultaneously determine the key magnetic interactions─symmetric exchange, chiral exchange, and anisotropy─governing the chiral domain phenomenology in multilayers, using a single binarized image of domain configurations. Our convolutional neural network model, trained and validated on over 10,000 domain images, achieved R 2 > 0.85 in predicting the parameters and independently learned the physical interdependencies between magnetic parameters. When applied to microscopy data acquired across samples, our model-predicted parameter trends are consistent with those of independent experimental measurements. These results establish ML-driven techniques as valuable, high-throughput complements to conventional determination of magnetic interactions and serve to accelerate materials and device development for nanoscale electronics.
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