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The magnetization orientation of a nanoscale ferromagnet can be manipulated using an electric current via the spin transfer effect. Time domain measurements of nanopillar devices at low temperatures have directly shown that magnetization…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-27 Samir Garzon , Longfei Ye , Richard A. Webb , Thomas M. Crawford , Mark Covington , Shehzaad Kaka

DC current induced magnetization reversal and magnetization oscillation was observed in 500 nm large size Co90Fe10/Cu/Ni80Fe20 pillars. A perpendicular external field enhanced the coercive field separation between the reference layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Linqiang Luo , Mehdi Kabir , Nam Dao , Salinporn Kittiwatanakul , Michael Cyberey , Stuart A. Wolf , Mircea Stan , Jiwei Lu

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

We present switching field distributions of spin-transfer assisted magnetization reversal in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multilayer spin-valve nanopillars at room temperature. Switching field measurements of the Co/Ni free layer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 D. B. Gopman , D. Bedau , S. Mangin , E. E. Fullerton , J. A. Katine , A. D. Kent

In planar nano-magnetic devices magnetization direction is kept close to a given plane by the large easy-plane magnetic anisotropy, for example by the shape anisotropy in a thin film. In this case magnetization shows effectively in-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-24 Ya. B. Bazaliy , D. Olaosebikan , B. A. Jones

Spin-polarized current through an Al nanoparticle in tunnel contact with two ferromagnets is measured as a function of the direction of the applied magnetic field. The nanoparticle filters the spin of injected electrons along a direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-15 F. T. Birk , C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

Slow magnetic relaxation and two level fluctuations measurements under high current injection is performed in single-contacted ferromagnetic nanostructures. The magnetic configurations of the samples are described by two metastable states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -E. Wegrowe

The torque generated by the transfer of spin angular momentum from a spin-polarized current to a nanoscale ferromagnet can switch the orientation of the nanomagnet much more efficiently than a current-generated magnetic field, and is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -T. Cui , J. C. Sankey , C. Wang , K. V. Thadani , Z. -P. Li , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Spin torque from spin current applied to a nanoscale region of a ferromagnet can act as negative magnetic damping and thereby excite self-oscillations of its magnetization. In contrast, spin torque uniformly applied to the magnetization of…

The magnetization reversal and dynamics of a spin valve pillar, whose lateral size is 64$\times$64 nm$^2$, are studied by using micromagnetic simulation in the presence of spin transfer torque. Spin torques display both characteristics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Li , S. Zhang

One essential feature in MRAM cells is the spin torque efficiency, which describes the ratio of the critical switching current to the energy barrier. Within this paper it is reported that the spin torque efficiency can be improved by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Dieter Suess , Christoph Vogler , Florian Bruckner , Hossein Sepehri-Amin , Claas Abert

We study current-driven magnetization switching in nanofabricated magnetic trilayers, varying the magnetoresistance in three different ways. First, we insert a strongly spin-scattering layer between the magnetic trilayer and one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

Spin orbit torque (SOT) provides an efficient way of generating spin current that promises to significantly reduce the current required for switching nanomagnets. However, an in-plane current generated SOT cannot deterministically switch a…

Current induced spin-orbit torques driven by the conventional spin Hall effect are widely used to manipulate the magnetization. This approach, however, is nondeterministic and inefficient for the switching of magnets with perpendicular…

Spin-orbit torque in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry provides an efficient mechanism for manipulating magnetization using a charge current. Here, we report the presence of a spin torque in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ziyan Luo , Qi Zhang , Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

The asymptotic behavior of switching time as a function of current for a uniaxial macrospin under the effects of both spin-torque and thermal noise is explored analytically by focusing on its diffusive energy space dynamics. The scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 D. Pinna , A. D. Kent , D. L. Stein

We study spin-orbit torques and charge pumping in magnetic quasi-one dimensional zigzag nanoribbons with hexagonal lattice, in the presence of large intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. Such a system experiences topological phase transition from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Hang Li , Aurelien Manchon

Using micromagnetics we demonstrate that the r.f. field produced by a spin valve can be used to reverse the magnetization in a magnetic nanoparticle. The r.f. field is generated using a current that specifically excites a uniform spin wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Rivkin , J. Ketterson , W. Saslow

The transfer of spin angular momentum to a nanomagnet from a spin polarized current provides an efficient means of controlling the magnetization direction in nanomagnets. A unique consequence of this spin torque is that the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Dinesh Kumar , K. Konishi , Nikhil Kumar , S. Miwa , A. Fukushima , K. Yakushiji , S. Yuasa , H. Kubota , C. V. Tomy , A. Prabhakar , Y. Suzuki , A. Tulapurkar

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman