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The spin Hall effect in heavy-metal thin films is routinely employed to convert charge currents into transverse spin currents and can be used to exert torque on adjacent ferromagnets. Conversely, the inverse spin Hall effect is frequently…

Spin orbit torques (SOT) are used to manipulate magnetization of ferromagnets in heavy metal / ferromagnetic bilayers and thus are technologically relevant from magnetization switching perspective. This necessitates development of methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Akanksha Chouhan , Abhishek Erram , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

In this study, the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in light metal oxide systems is investigated using an experimental approach based on harmonic Hall voltage techniques in out-of-plane (OOP) angular geometry for samples with in-plane magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-03 Y. Xu , B. Bony , S. Krishnia , R. Torrão Victor , S. Collin , A. Fert , J. -M. George , V. Cros , H. Jaffrès

Controlling magnetism by electric fields offers a highly attractive perspective for designing future generations of energy-efficient information technologies. Here, we demonstrate that the magnitude of current-induced spin-orbit torques in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mariia Filianina , Jan-Philipp Hanke , Kyujoon Lee , Dong-Soo Han , Samridh Jaiswal , Gerhard Jakob , Yuriy Mokrousov , Mathias Kläui

We study the spin-orbit torque (SOT) effective fields in Cr/CoFeAl/MgO and Ru/CoFeAl/MgO magnetic heterostructures using the adiabatic harmonic Hall measurement. High-quality perpendicular-magnetic-anisotropy CoFeAl layers were grown on Cr…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Zhenchao Wen , Junyeon Kim , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Masamitsu Hayashi , Seiji Mitani

The effect of spin currents on the magnetic order of insulating antiferromagnets (AFMs) is of fundamental interest and can enable new applications. Toward this goal, characterizing the spin-orbit torques (SOT) associated with AFM/heavy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Egecan Cogulu , Hantao Zhang , Nahuel N. Statuto , Yang Cheng , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Andrew D. Kent

We present a comprehensive study of the current-induced spin-orbit torques in perpendicularly magnetized Ta/CoFeB/MgO layers. The samples were annealed in steps up to 300 degrees C and characterized using x-ray absorption spectroscopy,…

This study reports the magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torque (SOT) from the spin current generated in Co2MnGa magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films. We deposited epitaxial Co2MnGa thin films with highly B2-ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Ke Tang , Zhenchao Wen , Yong-Chang Lau , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Takeshi Seki , Seiji Mitani

The spin Hall effect does not generally result in a charge Hall voltage. We predict that in systems with inhomogeneous electron density in the direction perpendicular to main current flow, the spin Hall effect is instead accompanied by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-23 Yu. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the current-induced phenomena in ultrathin ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures. We utilize heterodyne detection and analysis of symmetry with respect to the direction of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Ronghua Liu , WengLee Lim , Sergei Urazhdin

We study the influence of an in-plane magnetic field and Coulomb interactions on the physics of quantum spin Hall insulators, like those in InAs/GaSb and HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. Using a Hartree-Fock mean-field theory approximation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yongxin Zeng , Fei Xue , Allan H. MacDonald

Current-induced spin torque and magnetization dynamics in the presence of spin Hall effect in magnetic textures is studied theoretically. The local deviation of the charge current gives rise to a current-induced spin torque of the form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Aurelien Manchon , Kyung-Jin Lee

We study magnetic traps with very high trap frequencies where the spin is coupled to the motion of the atom. This allows us to investigate how the Born-Oppenheimer approximation fails and how effective magnetic and electric fields appear as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Zeynep Nilhan Gürkan , Erik Sjöqvist , Björn Hessmo , Benoît Grémaud

Terahertz spintronics offers the prospect of devices which are both faster and more energy-efficient. A promising route to achieve this goal is to exploit current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, the high-frequency properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Measurements of switching via spin-orbit coupling (SOC) mechanisms are discussed for a pair of inverted Pt/Co/Pt stacks with asymmetrical Pt thicknesses. Taking into account the planar Hall effect contribution, effective fields of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Cheow Hin Sim , Jian Cheng Huang , Michael Tran , Kwaku Eason

Spin-orbit torque characterizations on magnetic heterostructures with perpendicular anisotropy are demonstrated on a projected vector field magnet via hysteresis loop shift measurement and harmonic Hall measurement with planar Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Chao-Chung Huang , Chia-Chin Tsai , Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Chi-Feng Pai

We propose a simple scheme for magnetic angular position sensor based on current-induced spin-orbit torque effect. A full range detection of 360o is realized with a pair of Hall crosses made of heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Ziyan Luo , Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Yihong Wu

Charge to spin (orbital) momentum conversion phenomena enclose great potential for advancing applications in spin/orbitronics. Although current-induced magnetic moment accumulation is crucial both for fundamental understanding and practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Emanuele Longo , Josep Fontcuberta , Paolo Vavassori

A new method to measure the spin polarization of a ferromagnetic nanomagnet is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A high precision, repeatability and simplicity are the features of the proposed method. The dependency of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Vadym Zayets

We achieve current-induced switching in collinear insulating antiferromagnetic CoO/Pt, with fourfold in-plane magnetic anisotropy. This is measured electrically by spin Hall magnetoresistance and confirmed by the magnetic field-induced…