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Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with zero or vanishingly small macroscopic magnetization are nowadays the constituent elements of spintronic devices. However, possibility to use them as active elements that show nontrivial controllable…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Helen V. Gomonay , Roman Kunitsyn , Vadim M. Loktev

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 novel single-mode resonant structure which enables the rotation of the sample about two orthogonal axes is investigated in view of electron paramagnetic resonance applications. The proposed solution is based on cylindrical nonradiative…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Annino , M. Cassettari , M. Fittipaldi , M. Martinelli

Using a multilayer structure containing (cobalt detector layer)/(copper spacer)/(Permalloy source layer), we show experimentally how the non-reorientable spin-orbit torque generated by the Permalloy source layer (the component of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Joseph A. Mittelstaedt , Daniel C. Ralph

Magnetic skyrmions are topological solitons with a nanoscale winding spin texture that hold promise for spintronics applications. Until now, skyrmions have been observed in a variety of magnets that exhibit nearly parallel alignment for the…

We use lithographically induced strain relaxation to periodically modulate the magnetic anisotropy in a single (Ga,Mn)As layer. This results in a lateral magnetoresistance device where two non-volatile magnetic states exist at zero external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 R. G. Dengel , C. Gould , J. Wenisch , K. Brunner , G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp

Efficient manipulation of antiferromagnetically coupled materials that are integration-friendly and have strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is of great interest for low-power, fast, dense magnetic storage and computing. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Qianbiao Liu , Lijun Zhu , Xiyue S. Zhang , David A. Muller , Daniel C. Ralph

We report that synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs) can be efficiently switched by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) and the switching scheme does not obey the usual SOT switching rule. We show that both the positive and negative spin Hall angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Chong Bi , Hamid Almasi , Kyle Price , Ty Newhouse-Illige , Meng Xu , Shane R. Allen , Xin Fan , Weigang Wang

We study the transport properties of vortex matter in a superconducting thin film separated by a thin insulator layer from a ferromagnetic layer. We assume an alternating stripe structure for both FM and SC layers as found in [7]. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Amin Kayali , Valery L. Pokrovsky

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

We discuss the current induced magnetization dynamics of spin valves F0|N|SyF where the free layer is a synthetic ferrimagnet SyF made of two ferromagnetic layers F1 and F2 coupled by RKKY exchange coupling. In the interesting situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 Christian Klein , Cyril Petitjean , Xavier Waintal

Antiferromagnetic materials with spin splitting have attracted considerable attention for their symmetry-enabled anisotropic spin textures that sustain a zero net magnetization, thereby facilitating efficient spin-current generation. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiabin Wang , Wancheng Zhang , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Yong Liu , Zhihong Lu

We report a theoretical study of the localized spatial magnetization configuration, which is a confined spin configuration of the target skyrmion/hopfion type in an antiferromagnet with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and then we solve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Victor S. Gerasimchuk , Yuri I. Gorobets , Oksana Yu. Gorobets , Igor V. Gerasimchuk

We investigate spin-orbit torques of metallic CuAu-I-type antiferromagnets using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned by a dc-bias current. The observed spin torques predominantly arise from diffusive transport of spin current…

Current-induced magnetization switching, a fundamental phenomenon related to spin-transport of electrons, enables non-voltaic and fast information write, facilitating applications in low-power memory and logic devices. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Yanyan Yang , Weiwei Lin

We demonstrate single atom anisotropic magnetoresistance on the surface of a topological insulator, arising from the interplay between the helical spin-momentum-locked surface electronic structure and the hybridization of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Awadhesh Narayan , Ivan Rungger , Stefano Sanvito

We demonstrate spin torque induced auto-oscillation in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions. At the generation threshold, we observe a strong line narrowing down to 6 MHz at 300K and a dramatic increase in oscillator power, yielding…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Devolder , S. Cornelissen , L. Bianchini , Joo-Von Kim , P. Crozat , C. Chappert , M. Op de Beeck , L. Lagae

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

It is shown that interlayer spin-singlet Cooper pairing is induced by magnetic interactions in a metallic antiferromagnet of stacked conductive layers in which each layer is ferromagnetically polarized and they order antiferromagnetically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Shimahara

Stochastic oscillators based on emerging nanodevices are attractive because of their ultra-low power requirement and ability to exhibit stochastic resonance, a phenomenon where synchronization to weak input signals is enabled due to ambient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Punyashloka Debashis , Aman K. Maskay , Pramey Upadhyaya , Zhihong Chen