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The discovery of fascinating ways to control and manipulate antiferromagnetic materials have garnered considerable attention as an attractive platform to explore novel spintronic phenomena and functionalities. Layered antiferromagnets…

We report a THz emitter with excellent performances based on nonmagnetic (NM) and ferromagnetic (FM) heterostructures. The spin currents are first excited by the femtosecond laser beam in the NM/FM bilayer, and then transient charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-25 Yang Wu , Mehrdad Elyasi , Xuepeng Qiu , Mengji Chen , Yang Liu , Lin Ke , Hyunsoo Yang

In spintronic terahertz emitters, THz radiation is generated by exciting an ultrafast spin current through femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic metallic heterostructure. Although an extensive phenomenological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-22 Francesco Foggetti , Peter M. Oppeneer

We report on generation of pulsed broadband terahertz radiation utilizing the inverse spin Hall effect in Fe/Pt bilayers on MgO and sapphire substrates. The emitter was optimized with respect to layer thickness, growth parameters,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Garik Torosyan , Sascha Keller , Laura Scheuer , Rene Beigang , Evangelos Th. Papaioannou

Spin-based terahertz (THz) emitters, utilizing the inverse spin Hall effect, are ultra-modern sources for the generation of THz electromagnetic radiation. To make a powerful emitter having large THz amplitude and bandwidth, fundamental…

The surprising discovery of ultrafast demagnetization -- where electric field of femtosecond laser pulse couples to electrons of a ferromagnetic (FM) layer causing its magnetization vector {\em to shrink while not rotating}, is also assumed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Jalil Varela-Manjarres , Ali Kefayati , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob Linder

A key challenge in spintronics is to efficiently generate and manipulate spin current for information processing. Here we study ultrashort spin transport and associated terahertz (THz) emission in a hybrid structure comprising gold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 H. Y. Yuan , Rembert A. Duine

Antiferromagnets typically host spin-wave (magnon) excitations in the terahertz (THz) regime, offering a promising platform for high-speed magnonic information technologies. Harnessing these excitations requires sensitive control of their…

Electrical current-induced deterministic magnetization switching in a magnetic multilayer structure without external magnetic field is realized by utilizing interlayer exchange coupling. Two ferromagnetic Co layers, with in-plane and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Sheng , Kevin William Edmonds , Xingqiao Ma , Houzhi Zheng , Kaiyou Wang

We propose and analyze a spin wave amplifier aimed to enhance the amplitude of the propagating spin wave via the magnetoelectric effect. The amplifier is a two-layer multiferroic structure, which comprises piezoelectric and ferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Khitun , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Kang L. Wang

Spin-orbit coupling in ferromagnets gives rise to the anomalous Hall effect and the anisotropic magnetoresistance, both of which can be used to create spin-transfer torques in a similar manner as the spin Hall effect. In this paper we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 Tomohiro Taniguchi , J. Grollier , M. D. Stiles

It is found that single-cycle THz electromagnetic fields efficiently excite a GHz spin resonance mode in ferrimagnetic Tm$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$, despite the near absence of GHz spectral components in the exciting THz pulse. By analyzing how the…

Van der Waals antiferromagnetic and topological insulator materials provide powerful platforms for modern optical, electronic, and spintronic devices applications. The interaction between an antiferromagnet (AFM) and a topological insulator…

We demonstrate numerically that a pure time-harmonic bias AC current of some particular amplitude $\tau_f$ and angular frequency $\omega_f$ can excite the chaotic magnetization dynamics in a Josephson-like antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 D. V. Slobodianiuk , O. V. Prokopenko

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions, which are resistant to both the skyrmion Hall effect and external magnetic perturbations, are expected to be promising candidates for next-generation spintronics devices. Despite being observed in bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Weiyi Pan , Zhiming Xu

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Terahertz (THz) sciences and technologies have contributed to a rapid development of a wide range of applications and expanded the frontiers in fundamental science. Spintronic terahertz emitters offer conceptual advantages since the spin…

Current flowing is studied in magnetic junctions consisting of a ferromagnetic metal (FM), antiferromagnetic conductor (AFM) and a nonmagnetic metal closing the electric circuit. The FM layer with high anisotropy and pinned spins of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman , E. M. Epshtein

In recent years, techniques of intense THz laser have enabled us to experimentally observe nonlinear spin dynamics in antiferromagnets since the elementary excitations such as magnons reside on a THz to GHz range in antiferromagnets and THz…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Yuto Jita , Minoru Kanega , Takumi Ogawa , Shunsuke C. Furuya , Masahiro Sato