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Understanding the evolution of spin-orbit torque (SOT) with increasing heavy-metal thickness in ferromagnet/normal metal (FM/NM) bilayers is critical for the development of magnetic memory based on SOT. However, several experiments have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Andrew J. Berger , Eric R. J. Edwards , Hans T. Nembach , Olof Karis , Mathias Weiler , T. J. Silva

We examine the influence of crystal growth on the spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in Fe/Pt bilayers. The morphology of the Fe/Pt interface influences the effective spin mixing conductance. The increase of growth temperature…

We report that spin current transport across Pt-ferromagnet (FM) interfaces is strongly dependent on the type and the thickness of the FM layer and on post-deposition processing protocols. By employing both harmonic voltage measurements and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Chi-Feng Pai , Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

It has been recently shown that the coherent component of light propagating in transversally disordered media, the so-called coherent mode, exhibits an optical spin Hall effect (SHE). In non-resonant materials, however, this phenomenon…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Federico Carlini , Nicolas Cherroret

The effective field torque of an yttrium-iron-garnet film on the spin accumulation in an attached Pt film is measured by the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). As a result, the magnetization direction of a ferromagnetic insulating layer can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 N. Vlietstra , J. Shan , V. Castel , J. Ben Youssef , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

The giant spin Hall effect (SHE) at room temperature is one of the most attractive feature of topological insulators (TIs) for applications to nano-scale spin devices. Its origin, however, remains a controversial problem. Here, we identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Takanori Shirokura , Kenichiro Yao , Yugo Ueda , Pham Nam Hai

Spin Hall effect (SHE) has been discussed in the context of Kubo formulation, geometric physics, spin orbit force, and numerous semi-classical treatments. It can be confusing if the different pictures have partial or overlapping claims of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Seng Ghee Tan , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Congson Ho , Zhuobin Siu , Shuichi Murakami

More than a decade after the first theoretical and experimental studies of the spin Hall conductivity (SHC) of Pt, both its dominant origin and amplitude remain in dispute. Resolving these questions is of fundamental importance for…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-18 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Manling Sui , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

Recently, the quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted in (111)-oriented thin films of SnSe and SnTe topological crystalline insulators. It was shown that in these films the energy gaps in the two-dimensional band spectrum depend in an…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Shiva Safaei , Marta Galicka , Perla Kacman , Ryszard Buczko

Electrical detection of topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions is currently limited to conducting materials. While magnetic insulators offer key advantages for skyrmion technologies with high speed and low loss, they have not yet…

The spin Hall angle in Pt is evaluated in Pt/NiFe bilayers by spin torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) measurements, and is found to increase with increasing the NiFe thickness. To extract the intrinsic spin Hall angle in Pt by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Yi Wang , Praveen Deorani , Xuepeng Qiu , Jae Hyun Kwon , Hyunsoo Yang

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

The realization of a viable semiconductor transistor and information processing devices based on the electron spin has fueled intense basic research of three key elements: injection, detection, and manipulation of spins in the semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 K. Olejnik , J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , V. P. Amin , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth

Large-gap quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators were previously predicted in stanene and its derivatives. Beyond stanene that is the thinnest $\alpha$-Sn(111) film, we propose to explore QSH insulators in $\alpha$-Sn films with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-23 Jiaheng Li , Yong Xu

We study the magnetoresistance of yttrium iron garnet/Pt heterostructures in which the Pt layer was grown via atomic layer deposition (ALD). Magnetotransport experiments in three orthogonal rotation planes reveal the hallmark features of…

We present measurements of the Spin Hall Effect (SHE) in AuW and AuTa alloys for a large range of W or Ta concentrations by combining experiments on lateral spin valves and Ferromagnetic-Resonance/spin pumping technique. The main result is…

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), a hallmark of spin-orbit interaction of light, has long been considered a promising route toward spin-controlled functionalities in nanophotonics. Yet, its practical realization has been severely…

We show theoretically that both intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) and orbital Hall effect (OHE) can arise in centrosymmetric systems through momentum-space orbital texture, which is ubiquitous even in centrosymmetric systems unlike spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Dongwook Go , Daegeun Jo , Changyoung Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee

In this work we investigated thin films of the ferrimagnetic insulators YIG and NFO capped with thin Pt layers in terms of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE). The electric response detected in the Pt layer under an out-of-plane…

We envision that quantum spin Hall effect should be observed in $(111)$-oriented thin films of SnSe and SnTe topological crystalline insulators. Using a tight-binding approach supported by first-principles calculations of the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-01 Shiva Safaei , Marta Galicka , Perla Kacman , Ryszard Buczko