University of Silesia

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Engineering

Visualizing Uniaxial-strain Manipulation of Antiferromagnetic Domains in Fe₁₊_YTe Using a Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Mariam Kavai¹, Ioannis Giannakis¹, Justin Leshen¹, Joel Friedman¹, Pawel Zajdel², Pegor Aynajian¹

¹Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University, ²Institute of Physics, University of Silesia

Using uniaxial strain combined with spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy, we visualize and manipulate the antiferromagnetic domain structure of Fe_1+yTe, the parent compound of iron-based superconductors.