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The topological insulator/ferromagnetic metal (TI/FMM) bilayer thin films emerged as promising topological surface state-based spintronic devices, most notably in their efficiency of current-induced spin torque. Using a cubic lattice model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Wei Chen

We have studied current-driven domain wall motion in modified Ga_0.95Mn_0.05As Hall bar structures with perpendicular anisotropy by using spatially resolved Polar Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Microscopy and micromagnetic simulation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Y. Wang , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , C. T. Foxon , J. Wunderlich , D. A. Williams , B. L. Gallagher

We show that direct current in a tantalum microstrip can induce steady-state magnetic oscillations in an adjacent nanomagnet through spin torque from the spin Hall effect (SHE). The oscillations are detected electrically via a magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Luqiao Liu , Chi-Feng Pai , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Ling Tang , Zhijun Xu , Zejin Yang

We report the theoretical investigation of noise spectrum of spin current and spin transfer torque for non-colinear spin polarized transport in a spin-valve device which consists of normal scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yunjin Yu , Hongxin Zhan , Langhui Wan , Bin Wang , Yadong Wei , Qingfeng Sun , Jian Wang

Spin transfer torque-induced high-frequency dynamics of single thin cobalt-layer nanopillars of circular and elliptical shape have been observed directly. Two types of precessional modes can be identified as a function of magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-13 N. Müsgens , S. Fahrendorf , T. Maassen , A. Heiss , J. Mayer , B. Özyilmaz , B. Beschoten , G. Güntherodt

We study a nonlinear spin dynamics of a ferromagnetic ring in a vortex state induced by the spin-polarized current. We also suggest to use the ferromagnetic ring as a free layer of a coreless vortex spin-transfer nano-oscillator. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Vera Uzunova , Boris A. Ivanov

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

Ta/CoFeB/MgO trilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are expected to play a key role in the next generation of current and electric field switched memory and logic devices. In this study we use Kerr microscopy alongside electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Chris J. Durrant , Qiang Hao , Gang Xiao , Rob J. Hicken

The magnitude of spin-orbit torque (SOT), exerted to a ferromagnet (FM) from an adjacent heavy metal (HM), strongly depends on the amount of spin currents absorbed in the FM. We exploit the large spin absorption at the Ru interface to…

We show by means of micromagnetic simulations that spin polarizer in nano-contact spin torque oscillators (NC-STOs) as the representative of the fixed layer in an orthogonal pseudo-spin valve (P-SV) can be employed to design and to control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Morteza Mohseni , Majid Mohseni

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We study a model for the observed phenomenon of electron spin resonance (ESR) at the Zeeman frequency as seen by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) via its current noise. The model for this ESR-STM phenomenon allows the STM current to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Anatoly Golub , Baruch Horovitz

Spin currents can modify the magnetic state of ferromagnetic ultrathin films through spin-orbit torque. They may be generated by means of spin-orbit interaction by either bulk or interfacial phenomena. Electrical transport measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 A. Anadón , R. Guerrero , J. A. Jover-Galtier , A. Gudín , J. M. Díez , P. Olleros-Rodríguez , R. Miranda , J. Camarero , P. Perna

We use time-resolved (TR) measurements based on the polar magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) to study the magnetization dynamics excited by spin orbit torques in Py (Permalloy)/Pt and Ta/CoFeB bilayers. The analysis reveals that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Xinran Zhou , Hang Chen , Yu-Sheng Ou , Tao Wang , Rasoul Barri , Harsha Kannan , John Q. Xiao , Matthew F. Doty

We perform 3D micromagnetic simulations of current-driven magnetization dynamics in nanoscale exchange biased spin-valves that take account of (i) back action of spin-transfer torque on the pinned layer, (ii) non-linear damping and (iii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , I. N. Krivorotov , L. Torres , G. Consolo , B. Azzerboni

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

We have imaged the excitation of small-amplitude spin-wave eigenmodes, localized within $\sim$ 100 nm of the vertices of nanoscale Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$ ellipses, using time-resolved scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) at 2 GHz and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-04 Cheng Cheng , William E. Bailey

We report on a spectroscopic study of the spin-wave eigen-modes inside an individual normally magnetized two layers circular nano-pillar (Permalloy$|$Copper$|$Permalloy) by means of a Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope (MRFM). We…

We reported a systematic study of spin-orbit torque biased magnetic sensors based on NiFe/Pt bilayers through both macro-spin modeling and experiments. The simulation results show that it is possible to achieve a linear sensor with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Ziyan Luo , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu