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Single-crystal materials with sufficiently low crystal symmetry and strong spin-orbit interactions can be used to generate novel forms of spin-orbit torques on adjacent ferromagnets, such as the out-of-plane antidamping torque previously…

Motivated by recent observations of unconventional out-of-plane dampinglike torque in \ch{WTe2}/Permalloy bilayer systems, we calculate the spin-orbit torque generated in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)-ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Fei Xue , Christoph Rohmann , Junwen Li , Vivek Amin , Paul Haney

We present measurements of current-induced spin-orbit torques generated by NbSe$_2$, a fully-metallic transition-metal dichalcogenide material, made using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) technique with NbSe$_{2}$/Permalloy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Marcos H. D. Guimaraes , Gregory M. Stiehl , David MacNeill , Neal D. Reynolds , Daniel C. Ralph

Recent discoveries regarding current-induced spin-orbit torques produced by heavy-metal/ferromagnet and topological-insulator/ferromagnet bilayers provide the potential for dramatically-improved efficiency in the manipulation of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 D. MacNeill , G. M. Stiehl , M. H. D. Guimaraes , R. A. Buhrman , J. Park , D. C. Ralph

We study current-induced torques in WTe2/permalloy bilayers as a function of WTe2 thickness. We measure the torques using both second-harmonic Hall and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements for samples with WTe2 thicknesses that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 David MacNeill , Gregory M. Stiehl , Marcos H. D. Guimaraes , Neal D. Reynolds , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

Recently, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been extensively studied for their efficient spin-orbit torque generation in TMD/ferromagnetic bilayers, owing to their large spin-orbit coupling, variety in crystal symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Jan Hidding , Klaiv Mërtiri , Fauzia Mujid , Ce Liang , Jiwoong Park , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in spin-orbit torques (SOTs) for manipulating the magnetization in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices. SOTs rely on the spin-orbit coupling of a nonmagnetic material coupled to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Jan Hidding , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) possess novel properties which makes them potential candidates for various spintronic applications. Heterostructures of TMD with magnetic thin film have been extensively considered for spin-orbital…

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

The electronic and optoelectronic properties of two dimensional materials have been extensively explored in graphene and layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Spintronics in these two-dimensional materials could provide novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Qiming Shao , Guoqiang Yu , Yann-Wen Lan , Yumeng Shi , Ming-Yang Li , Cheng Zheng , Xiaodan Zhu , Lain-Jong Li , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

The bilayer heterostructures composed of an ultrathin ferromagnetic metal (FM) and a material hosting strong spin-orbit (SO) coupling are principal resource for SO torque and spin-to-charge conversion nonequilibrium effects in spintronics.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Kapildeb Dolui , Branislav K. Nikolic

We unveil a hitherto concealed spin-orbit torque mechanism driven by orbital degrees of freedom in centrosymmetric two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (focusing on PtSe${}_2$ ). Using first-principles simulations, tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Luis M. Canonico , Jose H. García , Stephan Roche

In this work, we experimentally investigate spin and orbital torque phenomena using the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) technique in a series of bilayer systems composed of different normal metal (NM) materials. Permalloy (Py)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 J. L. Costa , E. Santos , A. Y. M. Tani , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

Current induced spin-orbit torques have been studied in ferromagnetic nanowires made of 20 nm thick Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Using Hall voltage and lock-in measurements, it is found that upon injection of an…

An electric current in the presence of spin-orbit coupling can generate a spin accumulation that exerts torques on a nearby magnetization. We demonstrate that, even in the absence of materials with strong bulk spin-orbit coupling, a torque…

Current-induced torques in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers were investigated using an electrically driven FMR technique. The angle dependence of the resonances, detected by a rectification effect as a voltage, were analysed to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. D. Skinner , M. Wang , A. T. Hindmarch , A. W. Rushforth , A. C. Irvine , D. Heiss , H. Kurebayashi , A. J. Ferguson

We report measurements of current-induced torques in heterostructures of Permalloy (Py) with TaTe$_2$, a transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) material possessing low crystal symmetry, and observe a torque component with Dresselhaus…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as a promising class of materials for spintronics, with the aim of promoting efficient spin-charge conversion (SCC) in TMD/ferromagnet (FM)-based devices. The MoTe$_2$ semimetal with…

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