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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

We use quantum Monte Carlo to determine the magnetic and transport properties of coupled square lattice spin and fermionic planes as a model for a metal-insulator interface. Specifically, layers of Ising spins with an intra-layer exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-17 R. Mondaini , T. Paiva , R. T. Scalettar

We have studied the spin orbit torque (SOT) in Pt/Co/Ir multilayers with 3 repeats of the unit structure. As the system exhibits oscillatory interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) with varying Ir layer thickness, we compare the SOT of films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Yuto Ishikuro , Masashi Kawaguchi , Tomohiro Taniguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

Spin-phonon interactions are central to many interesting phenomena, ranging from superconductivity to magnetoelectric effects. Yet, they are believed to have a negligible influence on the structural behavior of most materials. For example,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-14 Claudio Cazorla , Oswaldo Dieguez , Jorge Iniguez

Spin pumping has significant implications for spintronics, providing a mechanism to manipulate and transport spins for information processing. Understanding and harnessing spin currents through spin pumping is critical for the development…

The Fe/MgO magnetic tunnel junction is a classic spintronic system, with current importance technologically, and interest for future innovation. The key magnetic properties are linked directly to the structure of hard-to-access buried…

Strong, adjustable magnetic couplings are of great importance to all devices based on magnetic materials. Controlling the coupling between adjacent regions of a single magnetic layer, however, is challenging. In this work, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Zhentao Liu , Zhaochu Luo , Ivan Shorubalko , Christof Vockenhuber , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella , Aleš Hrabec

The recent discovery of spin-current transmission through antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulating materials opens up unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and spintronics applications. The great mystery currently surrounding this…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Q. Li , M. Yang , C. Klewe , P. Shafer , A. T. N'Diaye , D. Hou , T. Y. Wang , N. Gao , E. Saitoh , C. Hwang , R. J. Hicken , J. Li , E. Arenholz , Z. Q. Qiu

In this work, we study magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torque in W(Pt)/Co/NiO heterostructures with variable thickness of heavy-metal layers W and Pt, perpendicularly magnetized Co layer and an antiferromagnetic NiO layer.…

We achieve tunneling spin injection from Co into single layer graphene (SLG) using TiO2 seeded MgO barriers. A non-local magnetoresistance ({\Delta}RNL) of 130 {\Omega} is observed at room temperature, which is the largest value observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Wei Han , K. Pi , K. M. McCreary , Yan Li , Jared J. I. Wong , A. G. Swartz , R. K. Kawakami

We study femtosecond spin currents through MgO tunneling barriers in CoFeB(2 nm)|MgO($d$)|Pt(2 nm) stacks by terahertz emission spectroscopy. To obtain transport information independent of extrinsic experimental factors, we determine the…

Collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) support two degenerate magnon excitations carrying opposite spin polarizations, by which magnons can function as electrons in various spin-related phenomena. In an insulating ferromagnet(F)/AF/F trilayer, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

The emergence of magnetism in quantum materials creates a platform to realize spin-based applications in spintronics, magnetic memory, and quantum information science. A key to unlocking new functionalities in these materials is the…

We demonstrate a voltage-controlled exchange bias effect in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions that is related to the interfacial Fe(Co)Ox formed between the CoFeB electrodes and the MgO barrier. The unique combination of interfacial…

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

We report on a general principle using the interlayer exchange coupling to extend the regime of chiral magnetic films in which stable or metastable magnetic skyrmions can appear at zero magnetic field. We verify this concept on the basis of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Ashis Kumar Nandy , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Stefan Blügel

We study the annealing stability of bottom-pinned perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions based on dual MgO free layers and thin fixed systems comprising a hard [Co/Ni] multilayer antiferromagnetically coupled to thin a Co…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-22 T. Devolder , S. Couet , J. Swerts , E. Liu , T. Lin , S. Mertens , G. Kar , A. Furnemont

We predict a spin echo in electron transport through layered ferromagnetic-normal-ferromagnetic metal structures: whereas a spin current polarized perpendicular to the magnetization direction decays when traversing a single homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arne Brataas , Gergely Zarand , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Current flowing is studied in magnetic junctions consisting of a ferromagnetic metal (FM), antiferromagnetic conductor (AFM) and a nonmagnetic metal closing the electric circuit. The FM layer with high anisotropy and pinned spins of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman , E. M. Epshtein

For a nitrogen dimer in insulating MgO, a ferromagnetic coupling between spin-polarized $2p$-holes is revealed by calculations based on the density functional theory amended by an on-site Coulomb interaction and corroborated by the Hubbard…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-02 Ivetta Slipukhina , Phivos Mavropoulos , Stefan Blügel , Marjana Ležaić