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We study the refraction effect of electronic wave in hole-doped lateral heterojunctions of metallic and semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers. This effect is theoretically investigated in 2$H$-type MoSe$_2$-NbS$_2$ and…

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Terahertz radiation pulses can be generated efficiently through femtosecond laser excitation of a ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic heterostructure, wherein an ultrafast laser-induced spin current results in an electromagnetic THz pulse due to…

We investigated the spin pumping damping contributed by paramagnetic layers (Pd, Pt) in both direct and indirect contact with ferromagnetic Ni$_{81}$Fe$_{19}$ films. We find a nearly linear dependence of the interface-related Gilbert…

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Femtosecond laser excitation of nanometer thin heterostructures comprising a heavy metal and a magnetically ordered material is known to result in the emission of terahertz radiation. However, the nature of the emitted radiation from heavy…

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We present a numerical study of the density of states in a ferromagnet/superconductor junction and the Josephson current in a superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junction in the diffusive limit by solving the Usadel equation with…

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The ballistic spin-filter effect from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor has theoretically been studied with an intention of detecting the spin polarizability of density of states in FM layer at a higher energy level. The physical…

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Properties are discussed of a ferromagnetic junction of the type "rod contacting with film". Very high current density of the order of $10^9$ A/cm$^2$ may be achieved in the contact region. We show it can lead to inversion of population of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-11 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Heterostructures combining graphene with 3d transition metal ferromagnets (FMs) enable various spin-based phenomena at ultrafast timescales. However, challenges such as the interfacial impedance mismatch, FM deposition-induced defect…

Using synchronized near-infrared (NIR) and terahertz (THz) lasers, we have performed picosecond time-resolved THz spectroscopy of transient carriers in semiconductors. Specifically, we measured the temporal evolution of THz transmission and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. A. Zudov , A. P. Mitchell , A. H. Chin , J. Kono

The reflection coefficient of bulk spin waves from multilayer ferromagnetic structure with periodically modulated parameters of exchange interaction, uniaxial and rhombic magnetic anisotropy and saturation magnetization is calculated with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-15 Sergey A Reshetnyak , Tat'yana A Homenko

A key challenge in spintronics is to efficiently generate and manipulate spin current for information processing. Here we study ultrashort spin transport and associated terahertz (THz) emission in a hybrid structure comprising gold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 H. Y. Yuan , Rembert A. Duine

Proximity-induced magnetization (PIM) has broad implications across interface-driven spintronics applications employing spin-currents. We directly determine the scaling between PIM in Pt and the temperature-dependent interface magnetization…

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We report that spin current transport across Pt-ferromagnet (FM) interfaces is strongly dependent on the type and the thickness of the FM layer and on post-deposition processing protocols. By employing both harmonic voltage measurements and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Chi-Feng Pai , Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We study the physical properties of a half-metallic ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor (HM$\mid$S) bilayer, allowing for an arbitrary bulk pairing symmetry of the superconductor and spin-dependent processes at the interface. In particular, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Linder , Mario Cuoco , Asle Sudbø

We present a combined experimental and theoretical work that investigates the magnetic proximity effect at a ferromagnetic-insulator - superconductor (FI-S) interface. The simulation is based on the boundary condition for diffusive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-21 P. Machon , M. J. Wolf , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

The realization of THz sources is a fundamental aspect for a wide range of applications. Over different approaches, compact THz oscillators can be realized taking advantage of dynamics in antiferromagnetic (AFMs) thin films driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Vito Puliafito , Roman Khymyn , Mario Carpentieri , Bruno Azzerboni , Vasyl Tiberkevich , Andrei Slavin , Giovanni Finocchio

First-principles scattering calculations are used to investigate spin transport through interfaces between diffusive nonmagnetic metals where the symmetry lowering leads to an enhancement of the effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kriti Gupta , Ruixi Liu , Rien J. H. Wesselink , Zhe Yuan , Paul J. Kelly

Terahertz emission spectroscopy of ultrathin multilayers of magnetic and heavy metals has recently attracted much interest. This method not only provides fundamental insights into photoinduced spin transport and spin-orbit interaction at…

The ultrashort laser excitation of Co/Pt magnetic heterostructures can effectively generate spin and charge currents at the interfaces between magnetic and nonmagnetic layers. The direction of these photocurrents can be controlled by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 G. Li , R. V. Mikhaylovskiy , K. A. Grishunin , J. D. Costa , Th. Rasing , A. V. Kimel