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Symmetry lowering at an interface leads to an enhancement of the effect of spin-orbit coupling and to a discontinuity of spin currents passing through the interface. This discontinuity is characterized by a "spin-memory loss" (SML)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Kriti Gupta , Rien J. H. Wesselink , Zhe Yuan , Paul J. Kelly

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

We theoretically study the nonlocal spin transport in a device consisting of a nonmagnetic metal (N) and ferromagnetic injector (F1) and detector (F2) electrodes connected to N. We solve the spin-dependent transport equations in a device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Spin transport electronics - spintronics - focuses on utilizing electron spin as a state variable for quantum and classical information processing and storage. Some insulating materials, such as diamond, offer defect centers whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Cardellino , N. Scozzaro , M. R. Herman , A. J. Berger , C. Zhang , K. C. Fong , C. Jayaprakash , D. V. Pelekhov , P. C. Hammel

Graphene is an ideal material for spin transport as very long spin relaxation times and lengths can be achieved even at room temperature. However, electrical spin injection is challenging due to the conductivity mismatch problem. Spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 D. I. Indolese , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Jünger , K. Thodkar , C. Schönenberger

In ferromagnetic metals, the interconversion of spin and charge currents via the spin Hall effect and its inverse can depend on the angle between the ferromagnets magnetization and the spin current polarization direction. Here, such a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel Cramer , Andrew Ross , Samridh Jaiswal , Lorenzo Baldrati , Romain Lebrun , Mathias Kläui

Spin injection from a half-metallic electrode in the presence of thermal spin disorder is analyzed using a combination of random matrix theory, spin-diffusion theory, and explicit simulations for the tight-binding s-d model. It is shown…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-05 K. D. Belashchenko , J. K. Glasbrenner , A. L. Wysocki

We report that spin current transport across Pt-ferromagnet (FM) interfaces is strongly dependent on the type and the thickness of the FM layer and on post-deposition processing protocols. By employing both harmonic voltage measurements and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Chi-Feng Pai , Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin insulatronics covers efforts to generate, detect, control, and utilize high-fidelity pure spin currents and excitations inside magnetic insulators. Ultimately, the new findings may open doors for pure spin-based information and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arne Brataas , Bart van Wees , Olivier Klein , Gregoire de Loubens , Michel Viret

The discontinuity of a spin-current through an interface caused by spin-orbit coupling is characterized by the spin memory loss (SML) parameter {\delta}. We use first-principles scattering theory and a recently developed local current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Kriti Gupta , Rien J. H. Wesselink , Ruixi Liu , Zhe Yuan , Paul J. Kelly

The spin and charge transport in materials with spin-dependent conductivity has been studied. It was shown that there is a charge accumulation along spin diffusion in a ferromagnetic metal, which causes a shortening of the spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Vadym Zayets

We have reconsidered the problem of spin injection across ferromagnet/non-magnetic-semiconductor (FM/NMS) and dilute-magnetic-semiconductor/non-magnetic-semiconductor interfaces, for structures with \textit{finite} magnetic layers (FM or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Khaetskii , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss , Charles Gould , Georg Schmidt , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We investigate spin transport through metallic antiferromagnets using measurements based on spin pumping combined with inverse spin Hall effects in Ni80Fe20/FeMn/W trilayers. The relatively large magnitude and opposite sign of spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-10 H. Saglam , W. Zhang , M. B. Jungfleisch , J. Sklenar , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

We start closing a gap in the comparison of experimental and theoretical data associated with the spin Hall effect. Based on a first-principles characterization of electronic structure and a semiclassical description of electron transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Albert Hönemann , Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig

We consider an antiferromagnetic insulator that is in contact with a metal. Spin accumulation in the metal can induce spin-transfer torques on the staggered field and on the magnetization in the antiferromagnet. These torques relate to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Arne Brataas

We theoretically investigate electron spin injection and spin-polarization sensitive current detection at Schottky contacts between a ferromagnetic metal and an n-type or p-type semiconductor. We use spin-dependent continuity equations and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

Solid-state electronics based on utilizing the electron spin degree of freedom for storing and processing information can pave the way for next-generation spin-based computing. However, the realization of spin communication between multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Bogdan Karpiak , Anamul Md. Hoque , Saroj P. Dash

Despite intense efforts it has remained unresolved whether and how interfacial spin-orbit coupling (ISOC) affects spin transport across heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnet (FM) interfaces. Here we report conclusive experiment evidence that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-27 Lijun Zhu , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Pure spin currents generated by spin pumping in ferromagnet/nonmagnet (FM/NM) bilayers produce inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) voltages in the NM, from which spin pumping and transport characteristics of the NM can be extracted. Due to its…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-20 H. L. Wang , C. H. Du , Y. Pu , R. Adur , P. C. Hammel , F. Y. Yang