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Antiferromagnetic materials present us with rich and exciting physics, which we can exploit to open new avenues in spintronic device applications. We explore perpendicularly magnetized exchange biased systems of Pt/Co/IrMn and Pt/Co/FeMn,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Risalat A. Khan , Hans T. Nembach , Mannan Ali , Justin M. Shaw , Christopher H. Marrows , Thomas A. Moore

We have studied anisotropic magnetoresistance (MR) and magnetization with rotating magnetic field (B) within $CuO_2$ plane in lightly doped AF $Nd_{2-x}Ce_xCuO_{4}$. \emph{A giant anisotropy} in MR is observed at low temperature below 5 K.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Wu , C. H. Wang , G. Wu , D. F. Fang , J. L. Luo , G T. Liu , X. H. Chen

The resistance of a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) spin valve near its superconducting transition temperature, $T_c$, depends on the state of magnetization of the F layers. This phenomenon, known as spin switch effect (SSE),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-03 J. Zhu , X. Cheng , C. Boone , I. N. Krivorotov

An inelastic neutron scattering study of the spin waves corresponding to the stripe antiferromagnetic order in insulating Rb$_{0.8}$Fe$_{1.5}$S$_2$ throughout the Brillouin zone is reported. The spin wave spectra are well described by a…

We demonstrate spin-valve magnetoresistance with a current-in-plane (CIP) configuration in (Ga,Fe)Sb / InAs (thickness $t_\mathrm{InAs}$ nm) / (Ga,Fe)Sb trilayer heterostructures, where (Ga,Fe)Sb is a ferromagnetic semiconductor (FMS) with…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-25 Kengo Takase , Le Duc Anh , Kosuke Takiguchi , Masaaki Tanaka

The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was employed to investigate the spin dynamics in triangular lattice antiferromagnets CuCr$_{1-x}$Mg$_{x}$O$_2$ with $x =$ 0 and 0.02. All spectra can be well fitted by a single Lorentzian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-16 Renwen Li , Zhe Qu , Wei Tong , Yuheng Zhang

We measure the frequencies of spin waves in nm-thick perpendicularly magnetized FeCoB systems, and model the frequencies to deduce the exchange stiffness of this material in the ultrathin limit. For this, we embody the layers in magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 T. Devolder , J. -V. Kim , L. Nistor , R. Sousa , B. Rodmacq , B. Diény

In the iron pnictide superconductors, theoretical calculations have consistently shown enhancements of the static magnetic susceptibility at both the stripe-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) and in-plane ferromagnetic (FM) wavevectors. However,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-28 P. Wiecki , B. Roy , D. C. Johnston , S. L. Bud'ko , P. C. Canfield , Y. Furukawa

We observe and analyze tunable relaxation of a pure spin current by an antiferromagnet in spin-valves. This is achieved by carefully controlling the angle between a resonantly excited ferromagnetic layer pumping the spin current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Akashdeep Kamra , Taras I. Polek , Arne Brataas , Vladislav Korenivski

Spin-wave dispersions in the antiferromagnetic state of single crystal LiFePO$_4$ were determined by inelastic neutron scattering measurements. The dispersion curves measured from the (010) reflection along both {\it a}$^\ast$ and {\it…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiying Li , Vasile O. Garlea , Jerel L. Zarestky , David Vaknin

We investigate the spin-current transport through antiferromagnetic insulator (AFMI) by means of the spin-Hall magnetoressitance (SMR) over a wide temperature range in Pt/NiO/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (Pt/NiO/YIG) heterostructures. By inserting…

In a bilayer consisting of an insulator (I) and a ferromagnetic metal (FM), interfacial spin orbit scattering leads to spin mixing of the two conducting channels of the FM, which results in an unconventional anisotropic magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Giovanni Vignale , Shufeng Zhang

The propagation of edge localized spin waves (E-SWs) in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) microstripes with/without the proximate magnetic microstructures is investigated by micromagnetic simulations. A splitting of the dispersion curve with the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-04 Zhizhi Zhang , Michael Vogel , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Axel Hoffmann , Yan Nie , Valentine Novosad

For magnonics and spintronics applications, the spin polarization ($P$) of a transport current and the magnetic damping ($\alpha$) play a crucial role, e.g. for magnetization dynamics and magnetization switching applications. In particular,…

The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) effect arises from spin-transfer processes across the interface between a spin Hall active metal and an insulating magnet. While the SMR response of ferrimagnetic and antiferromagnetic insulators has…

We report the observation of the spin valve effect in (Ga,Mn)As/p-GaAs/(Ga,Mn)As trilayer devices. Magnetoresistance measurements carried out in the current in plane geometry reveal positive magnetoresistance peaks when the two…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Xiang , B. L. Sheu , M. Zhu , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

Although spin injection at room temperature in an IrMn metallic antiferromagnet strongly depends on the transport regime, and is more efficient in the case of magnonic transport, in this article, we present experimental data demonstrating…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-26 O. Gladii , L. Frangou , G. Forestier , R. L. Seeger , S. Auffret , I. Joumard , M. Rubio-Roy , S. Gambarelli , V. Baltz

The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) is widely used to study the interplay between charge and spin currents in bilayers of a magnetic insulator and a normal metal. However, not much is known about the spatial variation of the SMR across…

We show that some metals and alloys (X = Cu, Ag, FeMn, or Cu and Ag combined with each other), sputtered between ferromagnetic Co and superconducting Nb, produce no change in current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR) in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Eid , H. Kurt , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

Static and dynamic magnetic properties of P\={3}1$m$-phase MnSb$_2$O$_6$ have been studied by means of muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR), high-frequency electron spin resonance (HF-ESR), specific heat, and magnetisation studies in magnetic…