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The discovery of intrinsic spin orbit fields in noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets has attracted considerable interest for both fundamental studies and technological applications. However, once such materials are synthesized, the strength of…

We examine the influence of crystal growth on the spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in Fe/Pt bilayers. The morphology of the Fe/Pt interface influences the effective spin mixing conductance. The increase of growth temperature…

From spin pumping measurements in Ta/Py devices for different thicknesses of Ta, we determine the spin Hall angle to be 0.021 - 0.033 and spin diffusion length to be 8 nm in Ta. We have also studied the effect of changing the properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Praveen Deorani , Hyunsoo Yang

The ion-sputtering induced intermixing is studied by Monte-Carlo TRIM, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling (AES-DP) analysis in Pt/Ti/Si substrate (Pt/Ti) and Ta/Ti/Pt/Si substrate (Ti/Pt)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Süle , M. Menyhárd , L. Kótis , J. Lábár , W. F. Egelhoff

The ion-sputtering induced intermixing is studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and by Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling (AES-DP) analysis in Pt/Ti/Si substrate (Pt/Ti) and Ta/Ti/Pt/Si substrate (Ti/Pt) multilayers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Süle , M. Menyhárd , L. Kótis , J. Lábár , W. F. Egelhoff

We investigate spin pumping phenomena in polycrystalline CoFeB/Pt and CoFeB/Ta bilayers and the correlation between the effective spin mixing conductance $g^{\uparrow\downarrow}_{\rm eff}$ and the obtained voltages generated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. Conca , B. Heinz , M. R. Schweizer , S. Keller , E. Th. Papaioannou , B. Hillebrands

Spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic (FM)/non-magnetic (NM) heterostructures offer more energy-efficient means to realize spin-logic devices; however, their strengths are determined by the heterostructure interface. This work examines…

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

The paper concerns experimental verification of the magnitude of imaginary part of spin mixing conductance in bilayers comprising heavy metals. We present results of broadband ferromagnetic resonance studies on heterostructures consisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Adam Krysztofik , Piotr Graczyk , Hubert Głowiński , Emerson Coy , Karol Załęski , Iwona Gościańska , Janusz Dubowik

We investigate the spin Hall effect in perpendicularly magnetized Ta/Co40Fe40B20/MgO trilayers with Ta underlayers thicker than the spin diffusion length. The crystallographic structures of the Ta layer and Ta/CoFeB interface are examined…

We compute the spin-orbit torque in a transition metal heterostructure using Slater-Koster parameterization in the two-center tight-binding approximation and accounting for d-orbitals only. In this method, the spin-orbit coupling is modeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 G. Manchon , S. Ghosh , C. Barreteau , A. Manchon

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

Magnetic insulators are promising materials for the development of energy-efficient spintronics. Unlike metallic counterparts, the magnetic insulators are characterized by imaginary part of the interfacial spin mixing conductance as well in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kuntal Roy

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

Spintronic devices are based on heterojunctions of two materials with different magnetic and electronic properties. Although an energy barrier is naturally formed even at the interface of metallic heterojunctions, its impact on spin…

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

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

Current-driven spin-orbit torques are investigated in a heterostructure composed of a ferromagnet deposited on top of a three dimensional topological insulator using the linear response formalism. We develop a tight-binding model of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Sumit Ghosh , Aurelien Manchon

Interfaces play a substantial role for the functional properties of structured magnetic materials and magnetic multilayers. Modeling the functional behavior of magnetic materials requires the treatment of the relevant phenomena at the…

Spin-orbit-torque (SOT) induced magnetization switching in Co/Pt/Co trilayer, with two Co layers exhibiting magnetization easy axes orthogonal to each other is investigated. Pt layer is used as a source of spin-polarized current as it is…