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We report on spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) measurements of Pt Hall bars on the antiferromagnetic NiO(111) single crystal. An SMR with a sign opposite of conventional SMR is observed over a wide range of temperatures as well as magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Geert R. Hoogeboom , Aisha Aqeel , Timo Kuschel , Thomas T. M. Palstra , Bart J. van Wees

The Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) emerged as a reference tool to investigate the magnetic properties of materials with an all-electrical set-up. Its sensitivity to the magnetization of thin films and surfaces may turn it into a valuable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sara Catalano , Juan M. Gomez-Perez , M. Xochitl Aguilar-Pujol , Andrey Chuvilin , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) has been observed in Pt/NiO/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) heterostructures with characteristics very different from those in Pt/YIG. We show that the SMR in Pt/NiO/YIG strongly correlates with spin conductance, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien

We report the observation of the three-dimensional angular dependence of the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in a bilayer of the epitaxial antiferromagnetic insulator NiO(001) and the heavy metal Pt, without any ferromagnetic element. The…

Magnetoresistance (MR) provides a crucial tool for experimentally studying spin torques. While MR is well established in the device geometry of the spin Hall effect (SHE), as exemplified by the magnet/heavy-metal heterostructures, its role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

We study the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) and the magnon spin transport (MST) in Pt/Y3Fe5O12(YIG)-based devices with intentionally modified interfaces. Our measurements show that the surface treatment of the YIG film results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Saül Vélez , Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto , Wenjing Yan , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR), the variation in resistance in a heavy metal (HM) with the magnetization orientation of an adjacent ferromagnet (FM), has been extensively studied as a powerful tool for probing surface magnetic moments in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Ping Tang

Van der Waals materials are a new platform to study two-dimensional systems, including magnetic order. Since the number of spins is relatively small, measuring the magnetization is challenging. Here we report spin Hall magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 F. Feringa , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

We investigate the spin Hall magnetoresistance in thin film bilayer heterostructures of the heavy metal Pt and the antiferromagnetic insulator NiO. While rotating an external magnetic field in the easy plane of NiO, we record the…

The effective field torque of an yttrium-iron-garnet film on the spin accumulation in an attached Pt film is measured by the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). As a result, the magnetization direction of a ferromagnetic insulating layer can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 N. Vlietstra , J. Shan , V. Castel , J. Ben Youssef , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

A large unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) ratio of UMR/$R_{xx}\sim$ $0.36\%$ is found in W/CoFeB metallic bilayer heterostructures at room temperature. Three different regimes in terms of the current dependence of UMR ratio are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ting-Yu Chang , Chih-Lin Cheng , Chao-Chung Huang , Cheng-Wei Peng , Yu-Hao Huang , Tian-Yue Chen , Yan-Ting Liu , Chi-Feng Pai

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

Next-generation spintronic sensors aim to overcome the limitations of traditional tunneling-magnetoresistance (TMR) devices, such as complex manufacturing, high $1/f$ noise, and significant offsets. This work presents a comprehensive…

We utilize spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) measurements to experimentally investigate the pure spin current transport and magnetic properties of nickel ferrite (NiFe2O4,NFO)/normal metal (NM) thin film heterostructures. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthias Althammer , Amit Vikam Singh , Tobias Wimmer , Zbigniew Galazka , Hans Huebl , Matthias Opel , Rudolf Gross , Arunava Gupta

Unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) has been observed in a variety of stacks with ferromagnetic/spin Hall material bilayer structures. In this work, we reported UMR in antiferromagnetic insulator Fe2O3/Pt structure. The UMR has a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-02 Yihong Fan , Pengxiang Zhang , Jiahao Han , Yang Lv , Luqiao Liu , Jian-Ping Wang

The recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance effect electrically probes pure spin current flow across a ferrimagnetic insulator/normal metal bilayer interface. While usually the DC electrical resistance of the bilayer is measured as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Johannes Lotze , Hans Huebl , Rudolf Gross , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

The spin-orbit interaction in heavy metal/ferromagnet/oxide structures has been extensively investigated because it can be employed in manipulation of the magnetization direction by in-plane current. This implies the existence of an inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-06 Soonha Cho , Seung-heon Chris Baek , Younghun Jo , Byong-Guk Park

We report a combined study of imaging the antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin structure and measuring the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in epitaxial thin films of the insulating non-collinear antiferromagnet SmFeO$_3$. X-ray magnetic linear…

Semiconductor-metal hybrid structures can exhibit a very large geometrical magnetoresistance effect, the so-called extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) effect. In this paper, we analyze this effect by means of a model based on the finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Holz , O. Kronenwerth , D. Grundler

We have investigated the temperature evolution of magnetism and its interrelation with structural parameters in perovskite-based layered compound Sr$_2$IrO$_4$, which is believed to be a $J_{eff}$ = 1/2 Mott insulator. The structural…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-15 Imtiaz Noor Bhatti , R. Rawat , A. Banerjee , A. K. Pramanik