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We report measurements of the thickness and temperature (T) dependencies of current-induced spin-orbit torques, especially the field-like (FL) component, in various heavy metal (HM)/normal metal (NM) spacer/ferromagnet (FM)/Oxide (MgO and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-02 Yongxi Ou , Chi-Feng Pai , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Recent discovery of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) within magnetic single-layers has attracted attention in the field of spintronics. However, it has remained elusive as to how to understand and how to tune the SOTs. Here, utilizing the single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman

We present measurements of spin orbit torques generated by Ir as a function of film thickness in sputtered Ir/CoFeB and Ir/Co samples. We find that Ir provides a damping-like component of spin orbit torque with a maximum spin torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Sutapa Dutta , Arnab Bose , A. A. Tulapurkar , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

It has become a heated debate as to whether the orbital Hall effect of a material could generate a non-local orbital current and a non-zero spin-orbit torque on an adjacent magnetic layer. Here, we report unambiguous evidence that,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Qianbiao Liu , Lijun Zhu

We examine the influence of crystal growth on the spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in Fe/Pt bilayers. The morphology of the Fe/Pt interface influences the effective spin mixing conductance. The increase of growth temperature…

We report on investigation of spin Hall magnetoresistance sensor based on NiFe/AuxPt1-x bilayers. Compared to NiFe/Pt, the NiFe/AuxPt1-x sensor exhibits a much lower power consumption (reduced by about 57%), due to 80% enhancement of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Hang Xie , Yihong Wu

Spin-orbit-torque-driven auto-oscillations in spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) offer a transformative pathway toward energy-efficient, nanoscale microwave devices for next-generation neuromorphic computing and high-frequency technologies.…

Efficient generation of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is central for the exciting field of spin-orbitronics. Platinum, the archetypal spin Hall material, has the potential to be an outstanding provider for spin-orbit torques due to its giant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A Buhrman

Manganites have shown potential in spintronics because they exhibit high spin polarization. Here, by ferromagnetic resonance we have studied the damping properties of La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_{3}$/Pt bilayers which are prepared by oxide…

Using the Boltzmann formalism based on the first principles electronic structure and scattering rates, we investigate the current-induced spin accumulation and spin-orbit torques in FePt/Pt and Co/Cu bilayers in the presence of…

We report on spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in bilayers composed of Pt and magnetic insulator MgFe$_{2}$O$_{4}$ (MFO) with spinel structure. The Pt thickness dependence of the SMR reveals that annealing of the MFO surface before…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-02 Masafumi Sugino , Kohei Ueda , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara , Jobu Matsuno

Electrical control of magnetization is of crucial importance for integrated spintronics devices. Spin-orbit torques (SOT) in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic heterostructures have emerged as promising tool to achieve efficiently current-induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-21 Leandro Salemi , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

The emergence of spin-orbit torques as a promising approach to energy-efficient magnetic switching has generated large interest in material systems with easily and fully tunable spin-orbit torques. Here, current-induced spin-orbit torques…

Spin backflow and spin-memory loss have been well established to considerably lower the interfacial spin transmissivity of metallic magnetic interfaces and thus the energy efficiency of spin-orbit torque technologies. Here we report that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Robert Buhrman

We investigate spin-orbit torques on magnetization in an insulating ferromagnetic (FM) layer that is brought into a close proximity to a topological insulator (TI). In addition to the well-known field-like spin-orbit torque, we identify an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 R. J. Sokolewicz , I. A. Ado , M. I. Katsnelson , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov

Increasing dampinglike spin-orbit torque (SOT) is both of fundamental importance for enabling new research into spintronics phenomena and also technologically urgent for advancing low-power spin-torque memory, logic, and oscillator devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Lijun Zhu , Lujun Zhu , Shengjie Shi , Manling Sui , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We measure spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in a unique model system of all-epitaxial ferrite/Pt bilayers to gain insights into charge-spin interconversion in Pt. With negligible electronic conduction in the insulating ferrite, the crystalline Pt…

The magnetic proximity effect (MPE) is a well-established magnetic phenomenon that occurs at certain heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnet (FM) interfaces. However, there is still an active debate as to whether the presence of a MPE affects spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-04 L. J. Zhu , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We investigate spin pumping phenomena in polycrystalline CoFeB/Pt and CoFeB/Ta bilayers and the correlation between the effective spin mixing conductance $g^{\uparrow\downarrow}_{\rm eff}$ and the obtained voltages generated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. Conca , B. Heinz , M. R. Schweizer , S. Keller , E. Th. Papaioannou , B. Hillebrands

In the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator bilayer (such as Pt/Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$) and the normal metal/ferromagnetic metal/oxide trilayer (such as Pt/Co/AlO$_{x}$) where spin injection and ejection are achieved by the spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist , Jairo Sinova , Dirk Manske