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A common ploy to reduce the switching current and energy dissipation in spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization switching of shape-anisotropic single-domain nanomagnets is to employ magnets with low saturation magnetization $M_s$ and high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Kuntal Roy , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Kamaram Munira , Avik W. Ghosh

Microwave assisted magnetization reversal are studied in the bulk bilayer exchange coupled system. We investigate the nonlinear magnetization reversal dynamics in a perpendicular exchange spring media using Landau-Lifshitz equation. In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-10 R Tayade , A Pasko , C Serpico , F Mazaleyrat , M Lobue

Spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque are leading the pathway to the future of spintronic memories. However, both of the mechanisms are suffering from intrinsic limitations. In particular, an external magnetic field is required for…

We present a microscopic theory of spin torque due to diffusive spin currents induced by spin accumulation. The obtained expression is a natural extension of the existing one due to 'local' spin currents associated with ordinary electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kazuhiro Hosono , Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno , Yukio Nozaki

We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Ye , Georg Wolf , Daniele Pinna , Gabriel D. Chaves , Andrew D. Kent

We derive the thermomagnonic torque associated with smooth magnetic textures subjected to a temperature gradient, in the framework of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Our approach captures on equal footing two distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

All-electrical and programmable manipulations of ferromagnetic bits are highly pursued for the aim of high integration and low energy consumption in modern information technology. Methods based on the spin-orbit torque switching in heavy…

The self-oscillation of the magnetization in a spin torque oscillator (STO) with a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer in the absence of an applied magnetic field was studied by numerically solving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

We investigate the minimal field strength in precessional magnetization switching using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in under-critically damped systems. It is shown that precessional switching occurs when localized trajectories in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 Di Xiao , M. Tsoi , Qian Niu

In ferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers, an in-plane current gives rise to spin-orbit spin transfer torque which is usually decomposed into field-like and damping-like torques. For two-dimensional free-electron and tight-binding models with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Ki-Seung Lee , Dongwook Go , Aurelien Manchon , Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Using an effective Hamiltonian including the Zeeman and internal interactions, we describe the quantum theory of magnetization dynamics when the spin system evolves non-adiabatically and out of equilibrium. The Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 F. M. Saradzhev , F. C. Khanna , Sang Pyo Kim , M. de Montigny

We study the effects of spin transfer on thermally activated dynamics of magnetic nanopillars with identical thicknesses of the magnetic layers. The symmetric nanopillars exhibit anomalous dependencies of switching statistics on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Weng L. Lim , Nicholas Anthony , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

The spin transfer torque is a phenomenon in which angular momentum of a spin polarized electrical current entering a ferromagnet is transferred to the magnetization. The effect has opened a new research field of electrically driven…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-07 P. Nemec , E. Rozkotova , N. Tesarova , F. Trojanek , E. De Ranieri , K. Olejnik , J. Zemen , V. Novak , M. Cukr , P. Maly , T. Jungwirth

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…

The magnetization dynamics of spin torque oscillator (STO) consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer was studied by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We derived the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Hiroko Arai , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

Theoretically, we study the dynamics of a current induced domain wall in the bi-layer structure consists of a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic metal layer with strong spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spin-Hall effect. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-21 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

Magnetization switching due to a current-pulse in symmetric and asymmetric spin valves is studied theoretically within the macrospin model. The switching process and the corresponding switching parameters are shown to depend significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Pavel Balaz , Martin Gmitra , Jozef Barnas

Perpendicular MgO-based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions are optimal candidates as building block of Spin Transfer Torque (STT) magnetoresistive memories. However, up to now, the only STT is not enough to achieve switching current density below…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Carpentieri , R. Tomasello , M. Ricci , P. Burrascano , G. Finocchio

The manner in which spin-polarized electrons interact with a magnetized thin film is currently described by a semi-classical approach. This in turn provides our present understanding of the spin transfer, or spin torque phenomenon. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-17 Wonkee Kim , L. Covaci , F. Dogan , F. Marsiglio