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The spin torque oscillator (STO), where the magnetization of the fixed layer is tilted out of the film plane, is capable of strong microwave signal generation in zero magnetic field. Through numerical simulations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-29 Yan Zhou , C. L. Zha , S. Bonetti , J. Persson , Johan Akerman

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange coupling to conduction electrons engenders an effective anisotropy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Bloch-Bloembergen-Slonczewski equation is adopted to simulate magnetization dynamics in spin-valve based spin-transfer torque oscillator with synthetic antiferromagnet acting as a free magnetic layer. High frequency up to the terahertz…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hai Zhong , Shizhu Qiao , Shishen Yan , Hong Zhang , Yufeng Qin , Lanju Liang , Dequan Wei , Yinrui Zhao , Shishou Kang

We investigate spin transport in two dimensional ferromagnetic (FTI) and antiferromagnetic (AFTI) topological insulators. In presence of an in plane magnetization AFTI supports zero energy modes, which enables topologically protected edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

Spin-torque oscillators are strong candidates as nano-scale microwave generators and detectors. However, because of large amplitude-phase coupling (non-linearity), phase noise is enhanced over other linear auto-oscillators. One way to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Muftah Al-Mahdawi , Yusuke Toda , Yohei Shiokawa , Masashi Sahashi

An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

The self-oscillation of the magnetization in a spin torque oscillator (STO) with a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer in the absence of an applied magnetic field was studied by numerically solving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

Electrical manipulation of spin textures inside antiferromagnets represents a new opportunity for developing spintronics with superior speed and high device density. Injecting spin currents into antiferromagnets and realizing efficient…

We study the magnetization dynamics of spin valve structures with a free composite synthetic ferromagnet (SyF) that consists of two ferromagnetic layers coupled through a normal metal spacer. A ferromagnetically coupled SyF can be excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Yan Zhou , Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , F. C. Zhang

Antiferromagnetic spintronics actively introduces new principles of magnetic memory, in which the most fundamental spin-dependent phenomena, i.e. anisotropic magnetoresistance effects, are governed by an antiferromagnet instead of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 Chengliang Lu , Bin Gao , Haowen Wang , Wei Wang , Songliu Yuan , Shuai Dong , Jun-Ming Liu

We propose here a high-frequency spin-Hall nano-oscillator based on a simple magnetic texture, such as a domain wall, located in an antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy type. We show that the spin current, polarized along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Roman V. Ovcharov , Elena G. Galkina , Boris A. Ivanov , Roman S. Khymyn

We theoretically describe the behavior of a terahertz nano-oscillator based on an anisotropic antiferromagnetic dynamical element driven by spin torque. We consider the situation when the polarization of the spin-current is perpendicular to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Benjamin Wolba , Olena Gomonay , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk

Quantum oscillations in the binary antiferromagnetic metal FeAs are presented and compared to theoretical predictions for the electronic band structure in the anomalous spin density wave state of this material. Demonstrating a new method…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-16 Daniel J. Campbell , Chris Eckberg , Kefeng Wang , Limin Wang , Halyna Hodovanets , Dave Graf , David Parker , Johnpierre Paglione

We propose a design of a THz-frequency signal generator based on a layered structure consisting of a current-driven platinum (Pt) layer and a layer of an antiferromagnet (AFM) with easy-plane anisotropy, where the magnetization vectors of…

We theoretically investigate dynamics of antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers. We show that spin-orbit torques drive antiferromagnetic domain walls much faster than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Takayuki Shiino , Se-Hyeok Oh , Paul M. Haney , Seo-Won Lee , Gyungchoon Go , Byong-Guk Park , Kyung-Jin Lee

The development of compact and tunable room temperature sources of coherent THz-frequency signals would open a way for numerous new applications. The existing approaches to THz-frequency generation based on superconductor Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Roman Khymyn , Ivan Lisenkov , Vasyl Tiberkevich , Boris A. Ivanov , Andrei Slavin

Synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF) have been proposed to replace ferromagnets in magnetic memory devices to reduce the stray field, increase the storage density and improve the thermal stability. Here we investigate the spin-orbit torque in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 P. X. Zhang , L. Y. Liao , G. Y. Shi , R. Q. Zhang , H. Q. Wu , Y. Y. Wang , F. Pan , C. Song

We simulate the switching behavior of nanoscale synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs), inspired by recent experimental progress in spin-orbit-torque switching of crystal antiferromagnets. The SAF consists of two ferromagnetic thin films with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Michael S. Ackermann , Satoru Emori

We demonstrate that ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic excitations can be triggered by the dynamical spin accumulations induced by the bulk and surface contributions of the spin Hall effect. Due to the spin-orbit interaction, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 F. S. M. Guimarães , S. Lounis , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz

In ferromagnetic systems lacking inversion symmetry, an applied electric field can control the ferromagnetic order parameters through the spin-orbit torque. The prototypical example is a bilayer heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-28 Fei Xue , Mark D. Stiles , Paul M. Haney