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We investigated spin Hall magnetoresistance in FeMn/Pt bilayers, which was found to be one order of magnitude larger than that of heavy metal and insulating ferromagnet or antiferromagnet bilayer systems, and comparable to that of NiFe/Pt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Yumeng Yang , Yanjun Xu , Kui Yao , Yihong Wu

Unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) has been observed in a variety of stacks with ferromagnetic/spin Hall material bilayer structures. In this work, we reported UMR in antiferromagnetic insulator Fe2O3/Pt structure. The UMR has a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-02 Yihong Fan , Pengxiang Zhang , Jiahao Han , Yang Lv , Luqiao Liu , Jian-Ping Wang

Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) refers to a resistance change in a metallic film reflecting the magnetization direction of a magnet attached to the film. The mechanism of this phenomenon is spin exchange between conduction-electron spins…

Heterostructures of normal metals (N) and magnetic insulators (F) show paradigmatic effects, such as spin-Hall magnetoresistance and electric drag currents. These effects are linear in the applied electric field $E(\omega)$. Normal-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Oliver Franke , Piet W. Brouwer

We report anisotropic magnetoresistance in Pt|Y3Fe5O12 bilayers. In spite of Y3Fe5O12 being a very good electrical insulator, the resistance of the Pt layer reflects its magnetization direction. The effect persists even when a Cu layer is…

We present a formalism that simultaneously incorporates the effect of quantum tunneling and spin diffusion on spin Hall magnetoresistance observed in normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator bilayers (such as Pt/YIG) and normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Seulgi Ok , Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Dirk Manske

Antiferromagnetic materials promise improved performance for spintronic applications, as they are robust against external magnetic field perturbations and allow for faster magnetization dynamics compared to ferromagnets. The direct…

In ferromagnet/normal-metal bilayers, the sensitivity of the spin Hall magnetoresistance and the spin Nernst magnetothermopower to the boundary conditions at the interface is of central importance. In general, such boundary conditions can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Sebastian Tölle , Michael Dzierzawa , Ulrich Eckern , Cosimo Gorini

Spin pumping in ferromagnets provides a source of pure spin currents. Via the inverse spin Hall effect a spin current is converted into a charge current and a corresponding detectable DC-voltage. The ratio of injected spin current to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Obstbaum , M. Härtinger , T. Meier , F. Swientek , C. H. Back , G. Woltersdorf

Manipulation of the magnetization in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic bilayers via the spin-orbit torque requires high spin Hall conductivity of the heavy metal. We measure inverse spin Hall voltage using a co-planar wave-guide based broadband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Akash Kumar , Rajni Bansal , Sujeet Chaudhary , P. K. Muduli

Via the spin-Hall effect and its inverse, in-plane charge currents in a normal metal$-$ferromagnet (N$|$F) bilayer can be used to excite and detect magnetization dynamics in F. Using a magneto-electric circuit approach, we here consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Ulli Gems , Oliver Franke , Piet W. Brouwer

Spin currents in ferromagnets afford diverse functionalities. We evaluate the extrinsic spin Hall effects of magnetic impurity scattering in ferromagnetic metals. We show that spin-dependent scattering can provide a high spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-12 Yuta Yahagi , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

Using a multi-conduction-channel model, we redefined the micromechanism of spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). Four conduction channels are created by spin accumulation of nonpolarized electron flow at top, bottom, left and right interfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-17 Yan-Qing Zhang , Hua-Rui Fu , Niu-Yi Sun , Wen-Ru Che , Ding Ding , Juan Qin , Cai-Yin You , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Rong Shan

Unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance (USMR) has been widely reported in the heavy metal / ferromagnet (HM/FM) bilayer systems. We observe the USMR in the Pt/{\alpha}-Fe2O3 bilayers where the {\alpha}-Fe2O3 is an antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Yang Cheng , Junyu Tang , Justin J. Michel , Su Kong Chong , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Kang L. Wang

In bilayers consisting of a normal metal (N) with spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnet (F), the combination of the spin-Hall effect, the spin-transfer torque, and the inverse spin-Hall effect gives a small correction to the in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 David A. Reiss , Tobias Kampfrath , Piet W. Brouwer

We report the observation of the three-dimensional angular dependence of the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in a bilayer of the epitaxial antiferromagnetic insulator NiO(001) and the heavy metal Pt, without any ferromagnetic element. The…

The thickness dependence of spin-orbit torque and magnetoresistance in ferromagnet/heavy-metal bilayers is studied using the first-principles non-equilibrium Green's function formalism combined with the Anderson disorder model. A systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 K. D. Belashchenko , Alexey A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde

Charge-spin conversion phenomena such as the spin Hall effect allow for the excitation of magnons in a magnetic layer by passing an electric current in an adjacent nonmagnetic conductor. We demonstrate that this current-induced modification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Paul Noël , Richard Schlitz , Emir Karadža , Charles-Henri Lambert , Luca Nessi , Federico Binda , Pietro Gambardella

We review the recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) and related effects from a theoretical point of view. The SMR is observed in bilayers of a magnetic insulator and a metal, in which spin currents aregenerated in the normal…

We develop a model for the magnonic contribution to the unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance (USMR) of heavy metal/ferromagnetic insulator bilayer films. We show that diffusive transport of Holstein-Primakoff magnons leads to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 W. P. Sterk , D. Peerlings , R. A. Duine