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Spin-dependent transport at heavy metal/magnetic insulator interfaces is at the origin of many phenomena at the forefront of spintronics research. A proper quantification of the different interfacial spin conductances is crucial for many…

We study the time-development processes of spin and charge transport phenomena in a topological Dirac semimetal attached to a ferromagnetic insulator with a precessing magnetization. Compared to conventional normal metals, topological Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Takahiro Misawa , Kentaro Nomura

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

Novel spin transport behavior is theoretically shown to result from replacing the usual metal (or poly-silicon) gate in a silicon field-effect transistor with a ferromagnet, separated from the semiconductor by an ultra-thin oxide. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

The spin injection and accumulation in metallic lateral spin valves with transparent interfaces is studied using d.c. injection current. Unlike a.c.-based techniques, this allows investigating the effects of the direction and magnitude of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-12 Fèlix Casanova , Amos Sharoni , Mikhail Erekhinsky , Ivan K. Schuller

Spintronics in ferromagnetic metals is built on a complementary set of phenomena in which magnetic configurations influence transport coefficients and transport currents alter magnetic configurations. In this Letter we propose that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Nunez , R. A. Duine , A. H. MacDonald

The research landscape of magnetism has been recently enriched by the discovery of altermagnetism. It is an unconventional phase of matter characterized by a d-wave (or higher even-parity-wave) collinear compensated spin ordering, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova , P. Wadley , D. Kriegner , H. Reichlova , F. Krizek , H. Ohno , L. Smejkal

Electrical spin injection into semiconductors paves the way for exploring new phenomena in the area of spin physics and new generations of spintronic devices. However the exact role of interface states in spin injection mechanism from a…

Spin pumping in ferromagnets provides a source of pure spin currents. Via the inverse spin Hall effect a spin current is converted into a charge current and a corresponding detectable DC-voltage. The ratio of injected spin current to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Obstbaum , M. Härtinger , T. Meier , F. Swientek , C. H. Back , G. Woltersdorf

Spin-pumping generates pure spin currents in normal metals at the ferromagnet (F)/normal metal (N) interface. The efficiency of spin-pumping is given by the spin mixing conductance, which depends on N and the F/N interface. We directly…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Mosendz , J. E. Pearson , F. Y. Fradin , S. D. Bader , A. Hoffmann

We investigate phonon spin transport in an insulating ferromagnet-nonmagnet-ferromagnet heterostructure. We show that the magnetoelastic interaction between the spins and the phonons leads to nonlocal spin transfer between the magnets. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Andreas Rückriegel , Rembert A. Duine

The magnitude of spin-orbit torque (SOT), exerted to a ferromagnet (FM) from an adjacent heavy metal (HM), strongly depends on the amount of spin currents absorbed in the FM. We exploit the large spin absorption at the Ru interface to…

We study the problem of controlling spin waves propagation through an antiferromagnet/ferromagnet interface via tuning material parameters. It is done by introducing the degree of sublattice noncompensation of antiferromagnet (DSNA), which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Oksana Busel , Oksana Gorobets , Oleg A. Tretiakov

In magnetoresistive (MR) studies of magnetic multilayers composed of combinations of ferromagnetic (F) and non-magnetic (N) metals, the magnetic moment (or related 'spin') of each conduction electron plays a crucial role, supplementary to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Jack Bass , William P. Pratt

$\text{RuO}_2$, a transition metal oxide, is attracting attention in spintronics for its unique altermagnetic properties, which influence spin currents. Its ability to produce large spin-orbit torques and spin Hall effects is key for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-20 Abhisek Mishra , Kshitij Singh Rathore , Swayang Priya Mahanta , Subhankar Bedanta

Recent thermodynamic measurements on two-dimensional (2D) electron systems have found diverging behavior in the magnetic susceptibility and appearance of ferromagnetism with decreasing electron density. The critical densities for these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Fazeli , K. Esfarjani , B. Tanatar

Injection and detection of spin accumulation in a semiconductor having localized states at the interface is evaluated. Spin transport from a ferromagnetic contact by sequential, two-step tunneling via interface states is treated not in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Jansen , A. M. Deac , H. Saito , S. Yuasa

The Heusler ferromagnetic (FM) compound Co2FeAl interfaced with a high-spin orbit coupling non-magnetic (NM) layer is a promising candidate for energy efficient spin logic circuits. The circuit potential depends on the strength of angular…

The spin-dependence of the interface resistance between ferromagnetic Fe and InAs is calculated from first-principles for specular and disordered (001) interfaces. Because of the symmetry mismatch in the minority-spin channel, the specular…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Zwierzycki , K. Xia , P. J. Kelly , G. E. W. Bauer , I. Turek

We report that atomic-layer alloying (intermixing) at a Pt/Co interface can increase, by approximately 30%, rather than degrade the interfacial spin transparency, and thereby strengthen the efficiency of the dampinglike spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Lijun Zhu , Daniel C. Ralph , Robert A. Buhrman