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The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) allows to investigate the magnetic textures of magnetically ordered insulators in heterostructures with normal metals by magnetotransport experiments. We here report the observation of the SMR in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Paul Rosenberger , Matthias Opel , Stephan Geprägs , Hans Huebl , Rudolf Gross , Martina Müller , Matthias Althammer

We report on spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in bilayers composed of Pt and magnetic insulator MgFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$ (MFO) with spinel structure. The Pt thickness dependence of the SMR reveals that annealing of the MFO surface before…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-02 Masafumi Sugino , Kohei Ueda , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara , Jobu Matsuno

We investigate the spin Hall magnetoresistance in thin film bilayer heterostructures of the heavy metal Pt and the antiferromagnetic insulator NiO. While rotating an external magnetic field in the easy plane of NiO, we record the…

Electric generation of spin current via spin Hall effect is of great interest as it allows an efficient manipulation of magnetization in spintronic devices. Theoretically, spin current can be also created by a temperature gradient, which is…

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 predict the emergence of spin Hall magnetoresistance in a magnetic bilayer composed of a normal metal adjacent to an antiferromagnet. Based on a recently derived drift-diffusion equation, we show that the resistance of the bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 A. Manchon

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

We report a combined study of imaging the antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin structure and measuring the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in epitaxial thin films of the insulating non-collinear antiferromagnet SmFeO$_3$. X-ray magnetic linear…

We predict a spin anomalous-Hall unidirectional magnetoresistance (AH-UMR) in conducting bilayers composed of a ferromagnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer, which does $\textit{not}$ rely on the spin Hall effect in the normal metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 M. Mehraeen , Steven S. -L. Zhang

A large unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) ratio of UMR/$R_{xx}\sim$ $0.36\%$ is found in W/CoFeB metallic bilayer heterostructures at room temperature. Three different regimes in terms of the current dependence of UMR ratio are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ting-Yu Chang , Chih-Lin Cheng , Chao-Chung Huang , Cheng-Wei Peng , Yu-Hao Huang , Tian-Yue Chen , Yan-Ting Liu , Chi-Feng Pai

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…

In this paper, we report the observation of spin-orbit magnetoresistance (SOMR) in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal/MgO system. We measure the magnetoresistance as the function of the thickness of heavy metal (HM) for CoFeB/HM/MgO and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Haoran Ni , Shuangfeng Li , Qihan Zhang , Jiguang Yao , Yongwei Cui , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue

We study spin-orbit-torque-driven ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) in ferromagnetic (FM) bilayers, consisting of Co and permalloy (Py), sandwiched between Pt and MgO layers. We find that the FM layer in contact with the Pt layers dominantly…

The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) of epitaxial BiFeO$_3$ thin films is investigated. SMR consistent with ferromagnetic interfacial states for BiFeO$_3$ films fabricated on (001) SrTiO$_3$ (R' BFO) and LaAlO$_3$ (T' BFO) substrates is…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 D. Sando , S. Chen , O. Paull , B. Xu , J. J. L. van Rijn , C. Xu , S. Xu , F. Appert , J. Juraszek , L. Bellaiche , V. Nagarajan , T. Banerjee

We consider a new type of magnetic tunnel junction, which consists of two ferromagnetic tunnel barriers acting as spin filters (SFs), separated by a nonmagnetic metal (NM) layer. Using the transfer matrix method and the free-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We consider a microscopic theory for the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). We generally formulate a spin conductance at an interface between a normal metal and a magnetic insulator in terms of spin susceptibilities. We reveal that SMR is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Takeo Kato , Yuichi Ohnuma , Mamoru Matsuo

We report detailed studies on ferromagnet--superconductor bilayer structures. Epitaxial bilayer structures of half metal--colossal magnetoresistive La$_{\mathrm{2/3}}$Ca$_{\mathrm{1/3}}$MnO$_{\mathrm{3}}$ (HM--CMR) and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Soltan , J. Albrecht , H. --U. Habermeier

The recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance effect electrically probes pure spin current flow across a ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal bilayer interface. While usually the DC electrical resistance of the bilayer is measured as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Johannes Lotze , Hans Huebl , Rudolf Gross , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

Spin-dependent transport at heavy metal/magnetic insulator interfaces is at the origin of many phenomena at the forefront of spintronics research. A proper quantification of the different interfacial spin conductances is crucial for many…

We study the spin Hall magnetoresistance effect in ferrimagnet/normal metal bilayers, comparing the response in collinear and canted magnetic phases. In the collinear magnetic phase, in which the sublattice magnetic moments are all aligned…