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It has been shown that the spin Hall effect from heavy transition metals can generate sufficient spin-orbit torque and further produce current-induced magnetization switching in the adjacent ferromagnetic layer. However, if the…
The concept of spin torque driven high frequency magnetization dynamics has opened up the field of spintronics to non-linear physics, potentially in complex networks of dynamical systems. In the scarce demonstrations of synchronized…
Ultra-fast spectrum analysis concept based on rapidly tuned spintronic nano-oscillators has been under development for the last few years and has already demonstrated promising results. Here, we demonstrate an ultra-fast microwave spectrum…
Magnetization reversal (switching) using either r.f. fields or brute-force precessional switching is currently thought to ultimately be limited by the non-linear excitation of non-uniform spin waves, the so-called Suhl instability. Here we…
We present numerical simulation studies of the steady-state magnetization dynamics driven by a spin-polarized current in a point contact geometry for the case of a relatively large contact diameter (D = 80 nm) and small external field (H =…
We show that direct current in a tantalum microstrip can induce steady-state magnetic oscillations in an adjacent nanomagnet through spin torque from the spin Hall effect (SHE). The oscillations are detected electrically via a magnetic…
We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the magnetization auto-oscillations induced by the local injection of electric current into a ferromagnet/heavy metal bilayer. We find that the characteristic currents required for the…
We theoretically propose a nonlinear spin-wave Doppler effect, in which the time-dependent motion of a magnetic energy boundary acts as an active frequency modulator, directly converting boundary-induced phase dynamics into instantaneous…
Magnetic resonance is a widely-established phenomenon that probes magnetic properties such as magnetic damping and anisotropy. Even though the typical resonance frequency of a magnet ranges from gigahertz to terahertz, experiments also…
Spin wave propagation and dynamic control are essential for reconfigurable magnonic and spintronic devices. Here, tunable mode coupling and band hybridisation are demonstrated in a nanopatterned bicomponent magnonic crystal consisting of a…
The spin torque switching rate of an in-plane magnetized system in the presence of an applied field is derived by solving the Fokker-Planck equation. It is found that three scaling currents are necessary to describe the current dependence…
We demonstrate a scalable new ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) technique based on the spin-orbit interaction. An alternating current drives FMR in uniform ferromagnetic structures patterned from the dilute magnetic semiconductors (Ga,Mn)As and…
We propose a new mechanism and a related device concept for a robust, magnetic field tunable radio-frequency (rf) oscillator using the self oscillation of a magnetic domain wall subject to a uniform static magnetic field and a spatially…
We study the theoretical conditions to excite a stable self-oscillation in a spin torque oscillator with an in-plane magnetized free layer and a perpendicularly magnetized pinned layer in the presence of magnetic field pointing in an…
Stochastic oscillators based on emerging nanodevices are attractive because of their ultra-low power requirement and ability to exhibit stochastic resonance, a phenomenon where synchronization to weak input signals is enabled due to ambient…
We report field- and current-induced domain wall (DW) depinning experiments in Ta/Co20Fe60B20/MgO nanowires through a Hall cross geometry. While purely field-induced depinning shows no angular dependence on in-plane fields, the effect of…
We studied the effect of strong electric current on spin waves interacting relativistically with the current. The spin-wave spectrum is calculated at arbitrary direction of the wave vector. It is shown that the alternating Hall current…
The rectifying effect of radio-frequency (RF) current is highly sensitive in terms of the spatial spin distribution and dynamics. It emerged that an additional spin wave mode was stimulated by the direct-current (DC) current and that this…
We demonstrate the predicted out-of-plane precession induced by spin transfer in magnetic nanostructures with in-plane magnetic field. We show that other magnetic excitations have a significant effect on the stability of the out-of plane…
The time domain stability of microwave spin torque oscillators (STOs) has been investigated by systematic micromagnetic simulations. A model based on internal spin wave reflection at grain boundaries with reduced exchange coupling was…