English
Related papers

Related papers: Ultrafast spin-currents and charge conversion at 3…

200 papers

Employing electron spin instead of charge to develop spintronic devices holds the merits of low-power consumption in information technologies. Meanwhile, the demand for increasing speed in spintronics beyond current CMOS technology has…

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are an aspiring class of materials with unique electronic and optical properties and potential applications in spin-based electronics. Here, we use terahertz emission spectroscopy to study…

Spin transport phenomena underpin an extensive range of spintronic effects. In particular spin transport across interfaces occurs in most device concepts, but is so far poorly understood. As interface properties strongly impact spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Alexander Pfeiffer , Robert M. Reeve , Kelvin Elphick , Atsufumi Hirohata , Mathias Kläui

Significant progress has been made in answering fundamental questions about how and, more importantly, on what time scales interactions between electrons, spins, and phonons occur in solid state materials. These complex interactions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-02 Weipeng Wu , Charles Yaw Ameyaw , Matthew F. Doty , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

We generalize the spin Hall angle to laser pulses of finite frequencies in the linear response regime and predict a giant optical spin Hall effect. Namely, for certain transition metal elements, at particular frequencies, the spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 P. Elliott , S. Shallcross , Sangeeta Sharma

Control over spin transport in antiferromagnetic systems is essential for future spintronic applications with operational speeds extending to ultrafast time scales. Here, we study the transition from the gigahertz (GHz) to terahertz (THz)…

The spin-to-charge current interconversion in bilayers composed of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers with strong spin-orbit coupling has garnered considerable attention due to its exceptional potential in advancing spintronics devices…

The interplay of electric charge, spin, and orbital polarizations, coherently driven by picosecond long oscillations of light fields in spin-orbit coupled systems, is the foundation of emerging terahertz spintronics and orbitronics. The…

We report about the anomalous Hall effect in 4f 3d metallic alloys measured using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The strength of the observed terahertz spin-dependent transport phenomenon is in good agreement with expectations based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 T. J. Huisman , R. V. Mikhaylovskiy , A. Tsukamoto , L. Ma , W. J. Fan , S. M. Zhou , Th. Rasing , A. V. Kimel

Terahertz (THz) Spintronic emitters based on ferromagnetic/metal junctions have become an important technology for the THz range, offering powerful and ultra-large spectral bandwidths. These developments have driven recent investigations of…

Ultrafast optical excitations trigger in materials a range of dynamics. An interesting range of dynamics is the ones that unfold within the picosecond timescale, corresponding to the THz frequency range. Within this short timescale, the…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yingshu Yang , Stefano Dal Forno , Marco Battiato

The Orbital Hall effect, which originates from materials with weak spin-orbit coupling, has attracted considerable interest for spin-orbitronic applications. Here, we demonstrate the inverse effect of the orbital Hall effect and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Ping Wang , Zheng Feng , Yuhe Yang , Delin Zhang , Quancheng Liu , Zedong Xu , Zhiyan Jia , Yong Wu , Guoqiang Yu , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang

Spintronics has emerged as a promising field for next-generation devices, offering functionalities beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). A critical challenge in spintronics is to develop systems that can efficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhendong Chi , Eoin Dolan , Haozhe Yang , Beatriz Martín-García , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

Spin-to-charge current interconversions are widely exploited for the generation and detection of pure spin currents and are key ingredients for future spintronic devices including spin-orbit torques and spin-orbit logic circuits. In case of…

Uniaxial spintronic heterostructures constitute compact THz emitters under femtosecond optical excitation, with emission amplitude and polarization governed by the applied magnetic field is presented. We demonstrate here efficient…

Spin-charge interconversion in systems with spin-orbit coupling has provided a new route for the generation and detection of spin currents in functional devices for memory and logic such as spin-orbit torque switching in magnetic memories…

The orbital angular momentum of electrons offers a promising, yet largely unexplored, degree of freedom for ultrafast, energy-efficient information processing. As the foundation of orbitronics, understanding how orbital currents propagate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Tongyang Guan , Jiahao Liu , Wentao Qin , Yongwei Cui , Shunjia Wang , Yizheng Wu , Zhensheng Tao

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

The process of spin-charge interconversion is critical in modern spintronics. Nonetheless, experiments conducted on a wide variety of magnetic heterostructures consistently report that charge-to-spin and spin-to-charge conversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Shuyuan Shi , Enlong Liu , Fanrui Hu , Guoyi Shi , Aurelien Manchon , Hyunsoo Yang

A profound understanding of terahertz (THz) spin and charge currents in heterostructures involving ferromagnets (FMs) and two-dimensional (2D) materials promises emerging applications in high-speed sensing and data processing. Yet,…