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The spin-to-charge current interconversion in bilayers composed of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with strong spin-orbit coupling has garnered considerable attention due to its exceptional potential in advancing spintronics devices…

The orbital Hall effect provides an alternative means to the spin Hall effect to convert a charge current into a flow of angular momentum. Recently, compelling signatures of orbital Hall effects have been identified in 3d transition metals.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Giacomo Sala , Pietro Gambardella

We describe a new approach to understanding and calculating magnetization switching rates and noise in the recently observed phenomenon of "spin-torque switching". In this phenomenon, which has possible applications to information storage,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Apalkov , P. B. Visscher

Using mapping between topological defects in an easy-plane magnet and electrical charges, we study interplay between vorticity and spin currents. We demonstrate that the flow of vorticity is accompanied by the transverse spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Edward Schwartz , Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Alexey A. Kovalev

The spin Hall effect originating from 5d heavy transition metal thin films such as Pt, Ta, and W is able to generate efficient spin-orbit torques that can switch adjacent magnetic layers. This mechanism can serve as an alternative to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-30 Wei-Bang Liao , Tian-Yue Chen , Yari Ferrante , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Chi-Feng Pai

The intrinsic spin Hall effect plays an important role in spintronics applications, such as spin-orbit torque-based memory. The bulk space group symmetry determines the form of the bulk spin current conductivity tensor. This paper considers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Fei Xue , Paul M. Haney

Spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions in the presence of spin diffusion is considered theoretically. Combining ballistic tunneling across the barrier and diffusive transport in the electrodes, we solve the spin dynamics equation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A Manchon , R. Matsumoto , H. Jaffres , J. Grollier

Spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) is a common method used to measure spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayer structures. In the course of a measurement, other resonant processes such as spin pumping (SP) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Saba Karimeddiny , Joseph A. Mittelstaedt , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

We study inserting Co layer thickness-dependent spin transport and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in the Pt/Co/Py trilayers by spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance. The interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy density ($K_s =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Wenqiang Wang , Kaiyuan Zhou , Xiang Zhan , Zui Tao , Qingwei Fu , Like Liang , Zishuang Li , Lina Chen , Chunjie Yan , Haotian Li , Tiejun Zhou , Ronghua Liu

We report a giant spin Hall effect (SHE) in {\beta}-W thin films. Using spin torque induced ferromagnetic resonance with a {\beta}-W/CoFeB bilayer microstrip we determine the spin Hall angle to be |\theta|=0.30\pm0.02, large enough for an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Chi-Feng Pai , Luqiao Liu , Y. Li , H. W. Tseng , D. C. Ralph , R. 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

While ferromagnet and topological material bilayers are widely studied to obtain efficient spin charge conversion via topological surface states (TSS), the influence of the magnetic proximity effect (MPE) on the TSS evolution and conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Masayuki Ishida , Soichiro Fukuoka , Takahiro Chiba , Yohei Kota , Masaaki Tanaka , Le Duc Anh

The observation of the spin Hall effect triggered intense research on pure spin current transport. With the spin Hall effect, the spin Seebeck effect, and the spin Peltier effect already observed, our picture of pure spin current transport…

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…

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

Electrical manipulation of magnetization by spin-orbit torque (SOT) has shown promise for realizing reliable magnetic memories and oscillators. To date, the generation of transverse spin current and SOT, whether it is of spin Hall effect…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-20 Yong-Chang Lau , Hwachol Lee , Kohji Nakamura , Masamitsu Hayashi

Picosecond switching of the staggered antiferromagnetic order is shown to be realizable through spin-transfer torques from a short current pulse. The coupled dynamics of sublattice magnetization is mapped onto a classical pendulum subject…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Ran Cheng , Matthew W. Daniels , Jian-Gang Zhu , Di Xiao

We present a time-resolved study of the magnetization dynamics in a microstructured Cr$|$Heusler$|$Pt waveguide driven by the Spin-Hall-Effect and the Spin-Transfer-Torque effect via short current pulses. In particular, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 T. Meyer , T. Brächer , F. Heussner , A. A. Serga , H. Naganuma , K. Mukaiyama , M. Oogane , Y. Ando , B. Hillebrands , P. Pirro

We report the possibility of achieving an order of magnitude reduction in the energy dissipation needed to write bits in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) by simulating the magnetization dynamics under a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Austin Roe , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha

Electric current exerts torques-so-called spin transfer torques (STTs)-on magnetic domain walls (DWs), resulting in DW motion. At low current densities, the STTs should compete against disorders in ferromagnetic nanowires but the nature of…

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