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There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential materials for efficient current-operated magnetic junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito

Spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions comprising a single magnetic layer in the presence of interfacial spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is investigated theoretically. Due to the presence of interfacial SOI, a current-driven spin torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Manchon

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

This letter introduces a micromagnetic model able to characterize the magnetization dynamics in three terminal magnetic tunnel junctions, where the effects of spin-transfer torque and spin-orbit torque are taken into account. Our results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Tomasello , M. Carpentieri , G. Finocchio

We review a unified approach for computing: (i) spin-transfer torque in magnetic trilayers like spin-valves and magnetic tunnel junction, where injected charge current flows perpendicularly to interfaces; and (ii) spin-orbit torque in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kapildeb Dolui , Marko Petrović , Petr Plecháč , Troels Markussen , Kurt Stokbro

We present spin transfer switching results for MgO based magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs)with large tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) ratio of up to 150% and low intrinsic switching current density of 2-3 x 10 MA/cm2. The switching data…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhitao Diao , Dmytro Apalkov , Mahendra Pakala , Alex Panchula , Yiming Huai

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

In this work we demonstrate explicit analytical expressions for both charge and spin currents which constitute the 2x2 spinor in magnetic tunnel junctions with noncollinear magnetizations under applied voltage. The calculations have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , A. Kalitsov , N. Ryzhanova , A. Vedyayev , N. Strelkov , W. H. Butler , B. Dieny

The spin-transfer torque is a fundamental physical quantity to operate the spintronics devices such as racetrack memory. We theoretically study the spin-transfer torque and analyze the dynamics of the magnetic domain walls in magnetic Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

The dependence of tunneling magnetoresistance and spin-transfer torque in FeCo/MgO/FeCo tunnel junctions on the Co concentration and the bias voltage are investigated ab initio. We find that the tunneling magnetoresistance decreases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Christian Franz , Michael Czerner , Christian Heiliger

Here, we present an analytical and numerical model describing the magnetization dynamics in MgO-based spin-torque nano-oscillators with an in-plane magnetized polarizer and an out-of-plane free layer. We introduce the spin-transfer torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ewa Kowalska , Volker Sluka , Attila Kákay , Ciarán Fowley , Jürgen Lindner , Jürgen Fassbender , Alina M. Deac

Spin-polarized currents can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet, generating a torque that can efficiently reorient its magnetization. Achieving quantitative measurements of the spin-transfer-torque vector in magnetic tunnel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 J. C. Sankey , Y. -T. Cui , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph , J. Z. Sun , J. C. Slonczewski

Spin polarized current can excite the magnetization of a ferromagnet through the transfer of spin angular momentum to the local spin system. This pure spin-related transport phenomena leads to alluring possibilities for the achievement of a…

We present tight-binding calculations of the spin torque in non-collinear magnetic tunnel junctions based on the non-equilibrium Green functions approach. We have calculated the spin torque via the effective local magnetic moment approach…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kalitsov , I. Theodonis , N. Kioussis , M. Chshiev , W. H. Butler , A. Vedyayev

A mesoscopic description of spin-transfer effect is proposed, based on the spin-injection mechanism occurring at the junction with a ferromagnet. The effect of spin-injection is to modify locally, in the ferromagnetic configuration space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -E. Wegrowe , S. M. Santos , M. -C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin , J. M. Rubí

A theory of spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors is developed and applied to magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions. Several phenomena with possible spintronic applications are predicted, including spinvoltaic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferro-magnet double barrier tunnel junction. The spin-polarized tunneling currents give rise to spin imbalance in the superconductor. The resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Saburo Takahashi , Hiroshi Imamura , Sasamichi Maekawa

We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht

The tunnel current and magnetoresistance (TMR) are investigated in magnetic tunnel junctions consisting of a spin-filter tunnel barrier, sandwiched between a ferromagnetic (FM) electrode and a nonmagnetic (NM) electrode. The investigations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We compute thermal spin transfer torques (TST) in Fe-MgO-Fe tunnel junctions using a first principles wave function-matching method. At room temperature, the TST in a junction with 3 MgO monolayers amounts to 10^-7J/m^2/K, which is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-24 Xingtao Jia , Ke Xia , Gerrit E. W. Bauer