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This work analyzes the behavior of the interface between a ferromagnetic material and an alter-magnet. We use a well-established line of arguments based on electronic mean-field calculations to show that new surface phenomena that lead to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-29 Gaspar De la Barrera , Alvaro S. Nunez

We consider mechanism of exchange coupling based on interaction between electrons in nonmagnetic layer. Depending on ratio of inverse time of diffusion of electrons between ferromagnetic layers and ferromagnetic splitting of conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Zyuzin A. Yu

We propose the use of resonant tunneling as a route to enhance the spin-transfer torque switching characteristics of magnetic tunnel junctions. The proposed device structure is a resonant tunneling magnetic tunnel junction based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Niladri Chatterji , Ashwin A Tulapurkar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

When the thickness of metal film approaches the nanoscale, itinerant carriers resonate between its boundaries and form quantum well states (QWSs), which are crucial to account for the film electrical, transport and magnetic properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Ching-Hao Chang , Kun-Peng Dou , Ying-Chin Chen , Tzay-Ming Hong , Chao-Cheng Kaun

The proposed switching mechanism is based on an electronically-induced metal-insulator transition occurring in conditions of the excess non-equilibrium carrier density under the applied electric field. First, this mechanism is developed on…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. P. Boriskov , A. L. Pergament , A. A. Velichko , G. B. Stefanovich , N. A. Kuldin

We study the combined effects of spin transfer torque, voltage modulation of interlayer exchange coupling and magnetic anisotropy on the switching behavior of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs). In asymmetric p-MTJs, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 D. J. P. de Sousa , P. M. Haney , D. L. Zhang , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

Spin-orbit-torque (SOT) induced magnetization switching in Co/Pt/Co trilayer, with two Co layers exhibiting magnetization easy axes orthogonal to each other is investigated. Pt layer is used as a source of spin-polarized current as it is…

Thermal control of exchange coupling between two strongly ferromagnetic layers through a weakly ferromagnetic Ni-Cu spacer and the associated magnetoresistance is investigated. The spacer, having a Curie point slightly above room…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-27 S. Andersson , V. Korenivski

We investigate the possibility of realizing a spintronic memristive device based on the dependence of the tunnel conductance on the relative angle between the magnetization of the two magnetic electrodes in in-plane magnetized tunnel…

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

We study how a bias voltage changes magnetic exchange interactions. We derive a general expression for magnetic exchange interactions for systems coupled to reservoirs under a bias potential, and apply it to spin valves. We find that for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul M. Haney , Christian Heiliger , Mark D. Stiles

For energy efficient and fast magnetic memories, switching of perpendicular magnetization by the spin-orbit torque (SOT) appears as a very promising solution, even more using magnetic insulators that suppress electrical shunting. This SOT…

The role of graphene in mediating the exchange interaction is theoretically investigated when it is placed between two ferromagnetic dielectric materials. The calculation based on a tight-binding model illustrates that the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim

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

Magnetization reversal of a perpendicular ferromagnetic free layer by spin-orbit torque (SOT) is an attractive alternative to spin-transfer torque (STT) switching in magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) where the write process involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Yong-Chang Lau , Davide Betto , Karsten Rode , JMD Coey , Plamen Stamenov

Perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB layers with ultra-thin non-magnetic insertion layers are very widely used as the electrodes in magnetic tunnel junctions for spin transfer magnetic random access memory devices. Exchange interactions play a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Jamileh Beik Mohammadi , Bartek Kardasz , Georg Wolf , Yizhang Chen , Mustafa Pinarbasi , Andrew D. Kent

We report the control of vertical magnetization shift (VMS) and exchange bias through spin-orbit torque (SOT) in Pt/Co/Ir25Mn75/Co heterostructure device. The exchange bias accompanying with a large relative VMS of about 30 % is observed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Z. P. Zhou , X. H. Liu , K. Y. Wang

The possibility of electron beam guiding is theoretically explored on the surface of a topological insulator through the proximity interaction with a magnetic material. The electronic band modification induced by the exchange coupling at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xiaodong Li , Ki Wook Kim

Electric field control of electron charge and spin degrees of freedom is fundamental to modern semiconductor and spintronic devices. Yet controlling electromagnetic waves with an electric field, particularly in the terahertz (THz) band,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jianhua Wang , Yilin Han , Shifeng Qian , Zhenxiang Cheng , Wenhong Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xiaotian Wang

Spin waves in insulating magnets are ideal carriers for spin currents with low energy dissipation. An electric field can modify the dispersion of spin waves, by directly affecting, via spin-orbit coupling, the electrons that mediate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tianyu Liu , G. Vignale