Since the interfacial effect has been commonly understood to be generated entirely at the boundary between the two atomic layers, the strength of the interfacial effect has been considered independent of the thickness of each layer. In this study, contrary to the common concept, we show that the interfacial phenomenon requires threshold thickness for full emergence and is suppressed when it is too thin, by providing the result of the peculiar ferromagnet layer thickness dependence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Our result refines conventional perspectives on interfacial phenomena and provides the optimum thickness to maximize DMI for technological applications.
- Yong-Keun Park
- Joo-Sung Kim
- Sug-Bong Choe
