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Field-free switching of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layer by spin orbit torque (SOT) from the spin Hall effect (SHE) is of great interest in the applications of magnetic memory devices. In this paper, we investigate the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Kai Wu , Diqing Su , Renata Saha , Jian-Ping Wang

Spin-orbit torque in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry provides an efficient mechanism for manipulating magnetization using a charge current. Here, we report the presence of a spin torque in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ziyan Luo , Qi Zhang , Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Xinhai Zhang , Yihong Wu

We report the thickness dependence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Pt\Co(t)\AlOx, studied by current-induced domain wall (DW) motion and second-harmonic experiments. From the DW motion study, a…

Topological insulators have attracted great interest as generators of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in spintronic devices. Bi\textsubscript{1-x}Sb\textsubscript{x} is a prominent topological insulator that has a high charge-to-spin conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-06 Federico Binda , Stefano Fedel , Santos Francisco Alvarado , Paul Noël , Pietro Gambardella

Averaged observations of physical phenomena have been utilized for comprehending specific occurrences in nature; however, these may overlook the crucial characteristics of individual events, thereby leading to diverse conclusions. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Minhwan Kim , Duck-Ho Kim

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

Spin-orbit torque provides an efficient pathway to manipulate the magnetic state and magnetization dynamics of magnetic materials, which is crucial for energy-efficient operation of a variety of spintronic devices such as magnetic memory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Ziyan Luo , Yihong Wu

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven deterministic control of the magnetization state of a magnet with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is key to next generation spintronic applications including non-volatile, ultrafast, and energy…

We investigate spin-orbit torques of metallic CuAu-I-type antiferromagnets using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned by a dc-bias current. The observed spin torques predominantly arise from diffusive transport of spin current…

Transfer of angular momentum from a spin-polarized current to a ferromagnet provides an efficient means to control the dynamics of nanomagnets. A peculiar consequence of this spin-torque, the ability to induce persistent oscillations of a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 V. S. Pribiag , I. N. Krivorotov , G. D. Fuchs , P. M. Braganca , O. Ozatay , J. C. Sankey , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Spin-orbit torques enable energy-efficient manipulation of magnetization by electric current and hold promise for applications ranging from nonvolatile memory to neuromorphic computing. Here we report the discovery of a giant spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Eric Arturo Montoya , Xinyao Pei , Ilya N. Krivorotov

Spin current plays a central role in spintronics. In particular, finding more efficient ways to generate spin current has been an important issue and studied actively. For example, representative methods of spin current generation include…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Keita Hamamoto , Motohiko Ezawa , Kun Woo Kim , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Using a semiclassical approach that simultaneously incorporates the spin Hall effect (SHE), spin diffusion, quantum well states, and interface spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we address the interplay of these mechanisms as the origin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Kohei Sakanashi , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

It has been shown that the spin Hall effect from heavy transition metals can generate sufficient spin-orbit torque and further produce current-induced magnetization switching in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. However, if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yan-Ting Liu , Tian-Yue Chen , Tzu-Hsiang Lo , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Shan-Yi Yang , Yao-Jen Chang , Jeng-Hua Wei , Chi-Feng Pai

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

We demonstrate simultaneous detection of current driven antidamping-like and field-like spin-orbit torques in heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal bilayers by measuring all three magnetization components m_(x,) m_y, and m_z using the vector…

We report on large modifications of current-induced spin-orbit torques in a gated Pt/Co/Gd-oxide microstrip due to voltage-driven O$^{2-}$ migration. The Slonczewski-like and field-like torques are quantified using a low-frequency harmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Seonghoon Woo , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

We propose a spin-mechanical device to control and detect spin currents by mechanical torque. Our hybrid nano-electro-mechanical device, which contains a nanowire with a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic interface, is designed to measure or induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Mohanty , G. Zolfagharkhani , S. Kettemann , P. Fulde

We study the spin-orbit torque (SOT) effective fields in Cr/CoFeAl/MgO and Ru/CoFeAl/MgO magnetic heterostructures using the adiabatic harmonic Hall measurement. High-quality perpendicular-magnetic-anisotropy CoFeAl layers were grown on Cr…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Zhenchao Wen , Junyeon Kim , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Masamitsu Hayashi , Seiji Mitani