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Despite the remarkable efforts in the past two decades, it has remained a major challenge to achieve switching of perpendicularly magnetized spin-orbit torque devices in a scalable, energy-efficient, field-free, integration-friendly, and…

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Spin-orbit torque (SOT) magnetization switching of ferromagnets with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy has a great potential for the next-generation non-volatile magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM). It requires a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Tuo Fan , Nguyen Huynh Duy Khang , Soichiro Nakano , Pham Nam Hai

Fabricating room-temperature ferromagnetic insulators, which are crucial candidates for next-generation dissipation-free quantum and spintronic devices, remains a significant challenge. In this Letter, we report on the epitaxial synthesis…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Yuhao Hong , Shilin Hu , Ziyue Shen , Chao Deng , Xiaodong Zhang , Lei Wang , Long Wei , Qinghua Zhang , Lingfei Wang , Liang Si , Yulin Gan , Kai Chen , Zhaoliang Liao

We have studied spin transport and magnetoresistance in yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/NiO/Pt trilayers with varied NiO thickness. To characterize the spin transport through NiO we excite ferromagnetic resonance in YIG with a microwave frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Yu-Ming Hung , Christian Hahn , Houchen Chang , Mingzhong Wu , Hendrik Ohldag , Andrew D. Kent

Complex ferromagnetic oxides such as La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ (LSMO) offer pathways for creating energy efficient spintronic devices with new functionalities. LSMO exhibits high-temperature ferromagnetism, half metallicity, sharp…

In spin transport experiments with spin currents propagating through antiferromagnetic (AFM) material, the antiferromagnet is treated as a mainly passive spin conductor not generating nor adding any spin current to the system. The spin…

Spin-orbit torque efficiency is conventionally fixed by bulk materials. $D$-wave altermagnets introduce an additional nonrelativistic spin-charge conversion channel beyond inverse spin-Hall effect. Using prototypical candidate RuO$_2$ as an…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongchao Yang , Zhaoqing Li , Yu Dai , Lili Lang , Zhong Shi , Zhe Yuan , Shi-Ming Zhou

The efficient transport of spin angular momentum is expected to play a crucial role in future spintronic devices, which potentially operate at frequencies reaching the terahertz range. Antiferromagnetic insulators exhibit significant…

As a candidate material for applications such as magnetic memory, polycrystalline antiferromagnets offer the same robustness to external magnetic fields, THz spin dynamics, and lack of stray field as their single crystalline counterparts,…

We report on the generation and transport of thermal spin currents in fully epitaxial {\gamma}-Fe$_2$O$_3$/NiO(001)/Pt and Fe$_3$O$_4$/NiO(001)/Pt trilayers. A thermal gradient, perpendicular to the plane of the sample, generates a magnonic…

With ultra-fast writing capacity and high reliability, the spin-orbit torque is regarded as a promising alternative to fabricate next-generation magnetic random access memory. However, the three-terminal setup can be challenging when…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Ming-Han Tsai , Po-Hung Lin , Kuo-Feng Huang , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Chih-Huang Lai

Spin-orbit torques due to interfacial Rashba and spin Hall effects have been widely considered as a potentially more efficient approach than the conventional spin-transfer torque to control the magnetization of ferromagnets. We report a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Liupeng Yang , Yining Fei , Kaiyuan Zhou , Lina Chen , Qingwei Fu , Liyuan Li , Cunjie Yan , Haotian Li , Youwei Du , Ronghua Liu

The ability to switch magnetic elements by spin-orbit-induced torques has recently attracted much attention for a path towards high-performance, non-volatile memories with low power consumption. Realizing efficient spin-orbit-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Shiheng Liang , Shuyuan Shi , Chuang-Han Hsu , Kaiming Cai , Yi Wang , Pan He , Yang Wu , Vitor M. Pereira , Hyunsoo Yang

We investigate the spin injection and the spin transport in paramagnetic insulators described by simple Heisenberg interactions using auxiliary particle methods. Some of these methods allow access to both paramagnetic states above magnetic…

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We develop an InAs nanowire gate-all-around field-effect transistor using a transparent conductive zinc oxide (ZnO) gate electrode, which is in-situ atomic layer deposited after growth of gate insulator of Al2O3. We perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Keiko Takase , Kouta Tateno , Satoshi Sasaki

We demonstrate an ultrathin and semitransparent anisotropic and spin Hall magnetoresistance sensor based on NiFe/Pt heterostructure. The use of spin-orbit torque effective field for transverse biasing allows to reduce the total thickness of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Yumeng Yang , Yanjun Xu , Hang Xie , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

We experimentally investigate spin-orbit torques and spin pumping in NiFe/Pt bilayers with direct and interrupted interfaces. The damping-like and field-like torques are simultaneously measured with spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Tianxiang Nan , Satoru Emori , Carl T. Boone , Xinjun Wang , Trevor M. Oxholm , John G. Jones , Brandon M. Howe , Gail J. Brown , Nian X. Sun

Spin injection efficiency based on conventional and/or half-metallic ferromagnet/semiconductor is greatly limited by the Schmidt obstacle due to conductivity mismatch, here we proposed that by replacing the metallic injectors with spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 G. Z. Xu , X. M. Zhang , Z. P. Hou , Y. Wang , E. K. Liu , X. K. Xi , S. G. Wang , W. Q. Wang , H. Z. Luo , W. H. Wang , G. H. Wu

With nearly complete spin polarization, the ferromagnetic semiconductor europium monoxide could enable next-generation spintronic devices by providing efficient ohmic spin injection into silicon. Spin injection is greatly affected by the…

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) has emerged as a promising method for achieving energy-efficient magnetization switching in advanced spintronic devices. However, technological advancement has been inadequate because an external…

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