English
Related papers

Related papers: Spin transfer torques in nonlocal lateral spin val…

200 papers

The spin-polarized transport is investigated in a new type of magnetic tunnel junction which consists of two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by a magnetic barrier and a nonmagnetic metallic spacer. Based on the transfer matrix method and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ali A. Shokri , Alireza Saffarzadeh

To conduct spin-sensitive transport measurements, a non-local device geometry is often used to avoid spurious voltages that are caused by the flow of charges. However, in the vast majority of reported non-local spin valve, Hanle spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 F. Volmer , T. Bisswanger , A. Schmidt , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten

Spin-transfer torques occur in magnetic heterostructures because the transverse component of a spin current that flows from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet is absorbed at the interface. We demonstrate this fact explicitly using free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. D. Stiles , A. Zangwill

Improved fabrication techniques have enabled the possibility of ballistic transport and unprecedented spin manipulation in ultraclean graphene devices. Spin transport in graphene is typically probed in a nonlocal spin valve and is analyzed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Aron W. Cummings , Stephen R. Power , Christoph W. Groth , Xavier Waintal , Stephan Roche

We have experimentally and theoretically investigated the electron spin transport and spin distribution at room temperature in a Si two-dimensional (2D) inversion channel of back-gate-type spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Shoichi Sato , Masaaki Tanaka , Ryosho Nakane

We predict that a single-level quantum dot without discernible splitting of its spin states develops a spin-precession resonance in charge transport when embedded into a spin valve. The resonance occurs in the generic situation of Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 M. Hell , B. Sothmann , M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs , J. König

We demonstrate that an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction with current perpendicular to the plane geometry can be used as an efficient spintronics device with potential high frequency operation. By using state-of-the-art density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Maria Stamenova , Razie Mohebbi , Jamileh Seyedyazdi , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We study the magnetoresistance of spin-valve devices using graphene as a non-magnetic material to connect ferromagnetic leads. As a preliminary step we first study the conductivity of a graphene strip connected to metallic contacts for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-27 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Using a pure electric current to control kagome noncollinear antiferromagnets is promising in information storage and processing, but a full description is still lacking, in particular, on intrinsic (i.e., no external magnetic fields or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yiyuan Chen , Z. Z. Du , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The prediction and realization of magnetic excitations driven by electrical currents via the spin transfer torque effect, enables novel magnetic nano-devices where spin-waves can be used to process and store information. The functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 S. Bonetti , R. Kukreja , Z. Chen , F. Macià , J. M. Hernàndez , A. Eklund , D. Backes , J. Frisch , J. Katine , G. Malm , S. Urazhdin , A. D. Kent , J. Stöhr , H. Ohldag , H. A. Dürr

Recently discovered relativistic spin torques induced by a lateral current at a ferromagnet/paramagnet interface are a candidate spintronic technology for a new generation of electrically-controlled magnetic memory devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 T. D. Skinner , K. Olejník , L. K. Cunningham , H. Kurebayashi , R. P. Campion , B. L. Gallagher , T. Jungwirth , A. J. Ferguson

We study the magnon transport in the nonlocal configuration composed of two Pt strips on top of yttrium iron garnet, with and without the presence of RF microwave generated by an on-chip antenna. We find that the spin-Hall induced thermal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Yabin Fan , Justin T. Hou , Joseph Finley , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Luqiao Liu

Spin-transfer torque in asymmetric spin valves can destabilize both parallel and antiparallel configurations and can lead to precessional modes also in the absence of an external magnetic field. We find a bistable precessional regime in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gmitra , J. Barnas

In magnets with non-collinear spin configuration the expectation value of the conventionally defined spin current operator contains a contribution which renormalizes an external magnetic field and hence affects only the precessional motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andreas Rückriegel , Peter Kopietz

We study the effect of the ferromagnetic (FM) contacts on the spin accumulation in the lateral spin valve system for the collinear magnetization configurations. When an additional FM electrode is introduced in the all-metallic lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tae-Suk Kim , B. C. Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

The momentum and spin of charge carriers in the topological insulators are constrained to be perpendicular to each other due to the strong spin-orbit coupling. We have investigated this unique spin-momentum locking property in Sb2Te3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Jen-Ru Chen , Pok-Lam Tse , Ilya N. Krivorotov , Jia G Lu

We theoretically study the current-induced spin torque in antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions, composed of two semi-infinite antiferromagnetic layers separated by a tunnel barrier, in both clean and disordered regimes. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 H. Saidaoui , A. Manchon , X. Waintal

We use a ferromagnetic voltage probe model to study the influence of inelastic scattering on giant magnetoresistance and current-induced torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic metal spin valves. The model is based on the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Duine , P. M. Haney , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

This paper shows that the presence of two dynamical regimes, characterized by different precessional-axis, is the origin of the non-monotonic behavior of the output integrated power for large-amplitude magnetization precession driven by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , A. La Corte , G. Consolo , L. Torres , B. Azzerboni

In this work, a theoretical study of spin transport in a pseudovalve spin (PSV) heterostructure is conducted. For the semiconductor (SC), the conduction band at the $\Gamma$ point of reciprocal space and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Julián A. Zúñiga , Arles V. Gil Rebaza , Diego F. Coral Coral