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The combination of spin-orbit coupling driven effects and multiferroic tunneling properties was explored experimentally in thin Pt/Co/BTO/LSMO multilayers. The presence of a Pt heavy metal allows for the spin current-induced magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Jakub Pawlak , Witold Skowroński , Piotr Kuświk , Félix Casanova , Marek Przybylski

We theoretically study the spin current and spin-transfer torque generation in a conventional spin- valve hybrid structure of type ferromagnetic/normal metal/ferromagnetic (FM/NM/FM) made of the topological insulator (TI), in which a gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Moslem Zare

We report the dynamic characterization of the spin-torque-driven in-plane precession modes of a spin-torque nano-oscillator based on two different synthetic ferrimagnets: a pinned one characterized by a strong RKKY interaction which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 E. Monteblanco , F. Garcia-Sanchez , M. Romera , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , U. Ebels

Time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy (TRSKM) is a powerful technique for the investigation of picosecond magnetization dynamics at sub-micron length scales by means of the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). The spatial resolution of…

We demonstrate a combined frequency and time domain investigation of injection-locked, constriction-based spin Hall nano-oscillators by Brillouin light scattering (BLS) and time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect (TR-MOKE). This was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 T. Hache , T. Weinhold , K. Schultheiss , J. Stigloher , F. Vilsmeier , C. Back , S. S. P. K. Arekapudi , O. Hellwig , J. Fassbender , H. Schultheiss

Current-induced torques in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers were investigated using an electrically driven FMR technique. The angle dependence of the resonances, detected by a rectification effect as a voltage, were analysed to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. D. Skinner , M. Wang , A. T. Hindmarch , A. W. Rushforth , A. C. Irvine , D. Heiss , H. Kurebayashi , A. J. Ferguson

An array of spin torque oscillators (STOs) for practical applications such as pattern recognition was recently proposed, where several STOs are connected by a common nonmagnet. In this structure, in addition to the electric and/or magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Tomohiro Taniguchi

In this work, we experimentally investigate spin and orbital torque phenomena using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) technique in a series of bilayer systems composed of different normal metal (NM) materials. Permalloy (Py)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 J. L. Costa , E. Santos , A. Y. M. Tani , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

We report that by measuring current-induced hysteresis loop shift versus in-plane bias magnetic field, the spin Hall effect (SHE) contribution of the current-induced effective field per current density, $\chi_{SHE}$, can be estimated for Pt…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-12 Chi-Feng Pai , Maxwell Mann , Aik Jun Tan , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We study the spatial distribution of spin torque induced by a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) in a ferromagnetic (FM) metal layer, using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function method. In the presence of the s-d interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 N. L. Chung , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

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 study the impact of spin wave damping ($\alpha$) on the auto-oscillation properties of nano-constriction based spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs). The SHNOs are based on a 5 nm Pt layer interfaced to a 5 nm Py$_{100-x-y}$Pt$_{x}$Ag$_{y}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-16 Yuli Yin , Philipp Dürrenfeld , Mykola Dvornik , Martina Ahlberg , Afshin Houshang , Ya Zhai , Johan Åkerman

The dynamics of a spin-torque-oscillator (STO) coupled with a nano-magnet through dipole-dipole interaction was studied numerically by using the macrospin model for the application of the STO as a read head sensor of hard disk drives. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 H. Arai , T. Taniguchi , H. Imamura

The flow of in-plane current through ultrathin magnetic heterostructures can cause magnetization switching or domain wall nucleation owing to bulk and interfacial effects. Within the magnetic layer, the current can create magnetic…

We investigate the spin transfer torque (STT) in the magnetic multilayer structures with micromagnetic simulations. We implement the STT contribution for the magnetic multilayer structures in addition to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-24 Chun-Yeol You

The injection, propagation and detection of spin currents are essential physical processes in spintronics. So far, the separation of charge and spin currents was facilitated by the electrical spin injection from a ferromagnet (FM) or the…

Recently, spin-transfer torque (STT) based magnetization switching has been widely utilized in magnetic resistance-based memories, which have broad applications in microcontroller units and other devices. This study utilizes a macrospin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Tomoki Watanabe , Keisuke Yamada , Yoshinobu Nakatani

The temporal evolution of pulsed Spin Hall Effect - Spin Transfer Torque (SHE-STT) driven auto-oscillations in a Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) / platinum (Pt) microdisc is studied experimentally using time-resolved Brillouin Light Scattering…

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

A nonlinear model of spin-wave excitation involving a point contact in a thin ferromagnetic film that includes the Oersted magnetic field contribution is presented. We consider the case of an external dc field applied perpendicular to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Hoefer , T. J. Silva