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We have developed a self-aligned, high-yield process to fabricate CPP (current perpendicular to the plane) magnetic sensors of sub 100 nm dimensions. A pinned synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) is used as the reference layer which minimizes…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lacour , J. A. Katine , N. Smith , M. J. Carey , J. R. Childress

This paper addresses the question: Can spintronic circuits based on Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) transducers outperform their state-of-the-art CMOS counterparts? To this end, we use the EPFL combinational benchmark sets, synthesize them…

A charge flow through a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) leads to the generation of a spin-polarized current which exerts a spin-transfer torque (STT) on the magnetization. When the density of applied direct current exceeds some critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 A. I. Nikitchenko , N. A. Pertsev

Future applications of spin-orbit torque will require new mechanisms to improve the efficiency for switching nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), while also controlling the magnetic dynamics to achieve fast, nanosecond scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Shengjie Shi , Yongxi Ou , S. V. Aradhya , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

A "spin-flip transistor" is a lateral spin valve consisting of ferromagnetic source drain contacts to a thin-film normal-metal island with an electrically floating ferromagnetic base contact on top. We analyze the \emph{dc}-current-driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xuhui Wang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Axel Hoffmann

Current-induced switching is considered in a magnetic junction. The junction includes pinned and free ferromagnetic layers which work in the regime of the high spin injection. It is shown that in such a regime the exchange magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , P. E. Zilberman

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

Spin-transfer ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) in symmetric magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a varied thickness of the MgO tunnel barrier (0.75 nm < $t_{MgO}$ < 1.05 nm) is studied using the spin-torque diode effect. The application of…

The magnetic reversal by spin-polarized current of a magnetic junction consisting of two ferromagnetic layers and a nonmagnetic spacer in between is considered. Initially, the free layer is magnetized antiparallel to the pinned layer by an…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

The spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) in a bilayer system consisting of a magnetic insulator such as Y3Fe5O12 and a normal metal with spin-orbit interaction such as Pt is addressed theoretically. We model the ST-FMR for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Takahiro Chiba , Michael Schreier , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Saburo Takahashi

We propose a method for inducing magnetization reversal using an AC spin current polarized perpendicular to the equilibrium magnetization of the free magnetic layer. We show that the critical AC spin current is significantly smaller than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tom Dunn , Alex Kamenev

We study theoretically the critical current in semiconductor nanowire Josephson junction with strong spin-orbit interaction. The critical current oscillates by an external magnetic field. We reveal that the oscillation of critical current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov

We demonstrate the general principle which states that a dissipationless spin current flows between two coupled ferromagnets if their magnetic orders are misaligned. This principle applies regardless the two ferromagnets are metallic or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Wei Chen , Peter Horsch , Dirk Manske

Spin-polarized tunneling in FMS/M/FMS double tunnel junctions where FMSs are ferromagnetic semiconductor layers and M is a metal spacer is studied theoretically within the single-site coherent potential approximation (CPA). The exchange…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We use a combination of analytic calculations and numerical simulations to demonstrate that electrical current flowing through a magnetic bilayer induces dynamical coupling between the layers. The coupling originates from the dependence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-13 S. Urazhdin

It has been demonstrated that the switching of perpendicular magnetization can be achieved with spin orbit torque (SOT) at an ultrafast speed and low energy consumption. However, to make the switching deterministic, an undesirable magnetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Zhaohao Wang , Zuwei Li , Min Wang , Bi Wu , Daoqian Zhu , Weisheng Zhao

Self-oscillations of the magnetization due to self-induced torque (SIT) in a magnetic double tunnel junction that consists of perpendicularly polarized, pinned and free layers is investigated along with the field-like torque (FLT). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 R. Arun , R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Lakshmanan

Auto-oscillations of magnetization driven by direct spin current have been previously observed in multiple quasi-zero-dimensional (0D) ferromagnetic systems such as nanomagnets and nanocontacts. Recently, it was shown that pure spin Hall…

Voltage control of magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) induced by charge accumulation is typically considered as an ultrafast process, enabling energy-efficient and high-speed magnetization switching in spintronic devices. In this work, we…

A key phenomenon related to the Josephson effect is oscillations of different properties of superconducting tunneling junctions with magnetic field. We consider magnetic oscillations of the critical current in stacks of intrinsic Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-09 A. E. Koshelev