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We report a comprehensive study of the maximization of the spin Hall ratio ({\theta}SH) in Pt thin films by the insertion of sub-monolayer layers of Ti to decrease carrier lifetime while minimizing the concurrent reduction in the spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-13 Lijun Zhu , R. A. Buhrman

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

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…

Using the linear response formalism for the spin-orbit torque (SOT) we compute from first principles the SOT in a system of two layers of L1$_0$-FePt(001) deposited on an fcc Pt(001) substrate of varying thickness. We find that at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Géranton , Frank Freimuth , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

A density-functional-theory based relativistic scattering formalism is used to study charge transport through thin Pt films with room temperature lattice disorder. A Fuchs-Sondheimer specularity coefficient $p \sim 0.5$ is needed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Rohit S. Nair , Max S. Rang , Paul J. Kelly

Topological insulator (TI) surface states exert strong spin-orbit torques. When the magnetization is in the plane its interaction with the TI conduction electrons is non-trivial, and is influenced by extrinsic spin-orbit scattering. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Mohsen Farokhnezhad , James H. Cullen , Dimitrie Culcer

Current-driven magnetization dynamics of single ferromagnets in heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers has been recently realized. In this work, spin torque induced by so-called Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin Hall effect are considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Aurelien Manchon

Spin accumulation and spin transfer torques induced by Spin Hall Effect in bi-layer structures comprising ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials are theoretically investigated. The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. Vedyayev , N. Strelkov , M. Chshiev , N. Ryzhanova , B. Dieny

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an in-plane current. As the spin-orbit torque is inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Kui Yao , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

Effective spin mixing conductance (ESMC) across the nonmagnetic metal (NM)/ferromagnet interface, spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and spin diffusion length (SDL) in the NM layer govern the functionality and performance of pure spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-02 L. Ma , H. A. Zhou , L. Wang , X. L. Fan , W. J. Fan , D. S. Xue , K. Xia , G. Y. Guo , S. M. Zhou

Spin transfer torque (STT) driven by a charge current plays a key role in magnetization switching in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic-metal structures. The STT efficiency defined by the ratio between the effective field due to STT and the current…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-18 Jianshu Xue , Yaping Guo , Ledong Wang , Yanan Dong , Yanxue Chen , Yufeng Tian , Shishen Yan , Lihui Bai

We report systematic measurements of anomalous Hall effect(AHE) and spin orbit torques(SOT) in MnGa/IrMn films,, in which a single MnGa epitaxial layer reveals obvious orbital two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect. As increasing the thickness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 K. K. Meng , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Wu , X. P. Zhao , J. H. Zhao , Y. Jiang

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

We investigate the amplification of externally excited spin waves via the Spin-Transfer-Torque (STT) effect in combination with the Spin-Hall-Effect (SHE) employing short current pulses. The results reveal that, in the case of an…

Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) devices offer improved power efficiency, nonvolatility, and performance compared to static RAM, making them ideal, for instance, for cache memory applications. Efficient…

We report that atomic-layer alloying (intermixing) at a Pt/Co interface can increase, by approximately 30%, rather than degrade the interfacial spin transparency, and thereby strengthen the efficiency of the dampinglike spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

We demonstrate a nonlinear Hall effect due to the boundary spin accumulation in Pt films grown on Al2O3 substrates. This Hall effect and the previously demonstrated Hanle magnetoresistance provide a complete picture of the spin-precession…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Jing Li , Andrew H. Comstock , Dali Sun , Xiaoshan Xu

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

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

Effectively manipulating magnetism in ferromagnet (FM) thin film nanostructures with an in-plane current has become feasible since the determination of a 'giant' spin Hall effect (SHE) in certain heavy metal (HM)/FM system. Recently, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Yongxi Ou , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman