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Spin orbit torque (SOT) has become a promising approach to efficiently manipulate the magnetization switching in spintronic devices. As a main factor to impact the device performance, the high quality interface is essentially desired, which…

Spin-momentum helical locking is one of the most important properties of the nontrivial topological surface states (TSS) in 3D topological insulators (TI). It underlies the iconic topological protection (suppressing elastic backscattering)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jifa Tian , Isaac Childres , Helin Cao , Shen Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

We report on the highly efficient spin-orbit torque (SOT) generation in epitaxial SrIrO$_{3}$(SIO), which is grown on an orthorhombic DyScO$_{3}$(110) substrate. By conducting harmonic Hall measurement in Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-12 Sosuke Hori , Kohei Ueda , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara , Jobu Matsuno

We show that Py, a commonly-used soft ferromagnetic material with weak anisotropy, can become perpendicularly-magnetized while depositing on Ta buffer layer with Hf or Zr insertion layers (ILs) and MgO capping layer. By using two different…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Tian-Yue Chen , Yongxi Ou , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Robert A. Buhrman , Chi-Feng Pai

In the increasing interests on spin-orbit torque (SOT) with various magnetic materials, we investigated SOT in rare earth-transition metal ferrimagnetic alloys. The harmonic Hall measurements were performed in Pt/GdFeCo bilayers to quantify…

Oxidation strongly influences the properties of magnetic layers employed in spintronic devices. We study the effect of oxidation on the structural, magnetic, and electrical properties as well as current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in…

Terahertz spintronic devices combine ultrafast operation with low power consumption, making them strong candidates for next-generation memory technologies. In this study, we use time-domain terahertz emission spectroscopy to investigate…

The simultaneous presence of seemingly incompatible properties of solids often provides a unique opportunity to address questions of fundamental and practical importance. The coexistence of ferroelectric and topological orders is one such…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Shi Liu , Youngkuk Kim , Liang Z. Tan , Andrew M. Rappe

We report efficient spin to charge conversion (SCC) in the topological insulator (TI) based heterostructure ($BiSbTe_{1.5}Se_{1.5}/Cu/Ni_{80}Fe_{20}$) by using spin-pumping technique where $BiSbTe_{1.5}Se_{1.5}$ is the TI and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Sayani Pal , Anuvab Nandi , Shambhu G. Nath , Pratap Kumar Pal , Kanav Sharma , Subhadip Manna , Anjan Barman , Chiranjib Mitra

Motivated by recent progress in employing two key classes of two-dimensional materials-topological insulators and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)-as spin sources for generating spin-orbit torque (SOT), we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Leyla Majidi , Azadeh Faridi , Reza Asgari

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) plays a crucial role in the next-generation spin-orbitronics. Enhancing its efficiency is both fundamentally and practically interesting and remains a challenge to date. Recently, orbital counterparts…

Spin-orbit torques (SOT) in thin film heterostructures originate from strong spin-orbit interactions (SOI) that, in the bulk, generate a spin current as the result of extrinsic spin-dependent, skew or/and side-jump, scattering, or in the…

Current-induced torques originating from earth-abundant 3d elements offer a promising avenue for low-cost and sustainable spintronic memory and logic applications. Recently, orbital currents -- transverse orbital angular momentum flow in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-03 Silvia Damerio , Can O. Avci

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

Recently, a new class of second-order topological insulators (SOTIs) characterized by an electronic dipole has been theoretically introduced and proposed to host topological corner states. As a novel topological state, it has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Jiang Zeng , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) enable fast and efficient manipulation of the magnetic state of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), making it attractive for memory, in-memory computing, and logic applications. However, the…

Strong spin-orbit coupling, resulting in the formation of spin-momentum-locked surface states, endows topological insulators with superior spin-to-charge conversion characteristics, though the dynamics that govern it have remained elusive.…

In this paper, we discuss spin transport in topological insulator (TI) and diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) heterogeneous structures. In DMS / FM (Ferromagnetic Metal) heterogeneous structure, the spin injection efficiency changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Myong Chol Pak , Kwang-Il Kim , Hak Chol Pak , Chol Won Ri , Sang Jun Cha

Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) represent one of the most effective ways to manipulate the magnetization in spintronic devices. The orthogonal torque-magnetization geometry, the strong damping, and the large domain wall velocities…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a key interaction in spintronics, allowing an electrical control of spin or magnetization and, vice versa, a magnetic control of electrical current. However, recent advances have revealed much broader…