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Conventional spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) face fundamental power limitations due to the low anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR < 0.3%) of ferromagnetic layers. To address this, we developed a synthetic antiferromagnetic spin-valve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Chunhao Li , Xiaotian Zhao , Wenlong Cai , Long Liu , Wei Liu , Zhidong Zhang

An electric method for measuring magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic insulators (AFIs) is proposed. When a metallic film with strong spin-orbit interactions, e.g., platinum (Pt), is deposited on an AFI, its resistance should be…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Hua Wang , Dazhi Hou , Zhiyong Qiu , Takashi Kikkawa , Eiji Saitoh , Xiaofeng Jin

The spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) phenomenon includes the fundamental physics of spin current, and originates from spin accumulation at an interface owing to the spin Hall effect. Although bilayers are the simplest structure exhibiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-29 Takumi Yamamoto , Takashi Yanase , Toshihiro Shimada , Taro Nagahama

We report the observation of spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in prototypical bilayers of ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet (YIG) and platinum in the frequency range from 0 THz to as high as 1.5 THz. The effect exhibits a strong low-pass…

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

In a bilayer consisting of an insulator (I) and a ferromagnetic metal (FM), interfacial spin orbit scattering leads to spin mixing of the two conducting channels of the FM, which results in an unconventional anisotropic magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Giovanni Vignale , Shufeng Zhang

We have studied the spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR), the magnetoresistance within the plane transverse to the current flow, of Pt/Co bilayers. We find that the SMR increases with increasing Co thickness: the effective spin Hall angle for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-21 Masashi Kawaguchi , Daiki Towa , Yong-Chang Lau , Saburo Takahashi , Masamitsu Hayashi

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

We study spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in Pt/ferrimagnetic insulator Y$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$ (YIG) bilayers by focusing on crystallinity, magnetization, and interface roughness by controlling post-annealing temperatures. The SMR in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-06 Kenta Fukushima , Kohei Ueda , Naoki Moriuchi , Takanori Kida , Masayuki Hagiwara , Jobu Matsuno

We report on the angular and field dependence of the magnetoresistance (MR) in bilayers of Pt/EuO_{1-x} thin films, measured in both in-plane and out-of-plane geometries at different temperatures (T). Presence of oxygen vacancies manifested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Kingshuk Mallick , Aditya A. Wagh , Adrian Ionescu , Crispin H. W. Barnes , P. S. Anil Kumar

SrMnO$_{3}$ (SMO) is a magnetic insulator and predicted to exhibit a multiferroic phase upon straining. Strained films of SMO display a wide range of magnetic orders, ranging from G-type to C-and A-type, indicative of competing magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-13 J. J. L. van Rijn , T. Banerjee

Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

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 report magnetoresistance measurements on thin Pt bars grown on epitaxial (001) and (111) CoFe2O4 (CFO) ferrimagnetic insulating films. The results can be described in terms of the recently discovered spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR).…

The interaction between the itinerant spins in metals and localized spins in magnetic insulators thus far has only been explored in collinear spin systems, such as garnets. Here, we report the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) sensitive to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-17 A. Aqeel , N. Vlietstra , A. Roy , M. Mostovoy , B. J. van Wees , T. T. M. Palstra

We present a theory of the spin Hall magnetoresistance of metals in contact with magnetic insulators. We express the spin-mixing conductances, which govern the phenomenology of the effect, in terms of the microscopic parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 X. P. Zhang , F. S. Bergeret , V. N. Golovach

We study the high-temperature phase diagram of the chiral magnetic insulator Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ by measuring the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) in a thin Pt electrode. We find distinct changes in the phase and amplitude of the SMR signal at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 A. Aqeel , M. Azhar , N. Vlietstra , A. Pozzi , J. Sahliger , H. Huebl , T. T. M. Palstra , C. H. Back , M. Mostovoy

Recent experiments have revealed nonlinear features of the magnetoresistance in metallic bilayers consisting of a heavy-metal (HM) and a ferromagnetic metal (FM). A small change in the lon- gitudinal resistance of the bilayer has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Giovanni Vignale

Using a multi-conduction-channel model, we redefined the micromechanism of spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). Four conduction channels are created by spin accumulation of nonpolarized electron flow at top, bottom, left and right interfaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-17 Yan-Qing Zhang , Hua-Rui Fu , Niu-Yi Sun , Wen-Ru Che , Ding Ding , Juan Qin , Cai-Yin You , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Rong Shan

Heavy metal (HM)/magnet bilayers host many magnetoresistances (MR) and spin caloritronic effects. Here we show that the spin Peltier effect and electron-phonon scattering produce much larger unidirectional MR of an HM on a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Sean E. Sullivan , Hwijong Lee , Annie Weathers , Li Shi