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Spin current generated by spin Hall effect in the heavy metal would diffuse up and down to adjacent ferromagnetic layers and exert torque on their magnetization, called spin-orbit torque. Antiferromagnetically coupled trilayers, namely the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 G. Y. Shi , C. H. Wan , Y. S. Chang , F. Li , X. J. Zhou , P. X. Zhang , J. W. Cai , X. F. Han , F. Pan , C. Song

The effective field torque of an yttrium-iron-garnet film on the spin accumulation in an attached Pt film is measured by the spin-Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). As a result, the magnetization direction of a ferromagnetic insulating layer can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 N. Vlietstra , J. Shan , V. Castel , J. Ben Youssef , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees

Large charge-to-spin conversion (spin Hall angle) and spin Hall conductivity are prerequisites for development of next generation power efficient spintronic devices. In this context, heavy metals (e.g. Pt, W etc.), topological insulators,…

In ferromagnetic trilayers, a spin-orbit-induced spin current can have a spin polarization of which direction is deviated from that for the spin Hall effect. Recently, magnetization switching in ferromagnetic trilayers has been proposed and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-07 Dong-Kyu Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

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

The giant spin Hall effect in magnetic heterostructures along with low spin memory loss and high interfacial spin mixing conductance are prerequisites to realize energy efficient spin torque based logic devices. We report giant spin Hall…

Controlling magnetism by electric fields offers a highly attractive perspective for designing future generations of energy-efficient information technologies. Here, we demonstrate that the magnitude of current-induced spin-orbit torques in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Mariia Filianina , Jan-Philipp Hanke , Kyujoon Lee , Dong-Soo Han , Samridh Jaiswal , Gerhard Jakob , Yuriy Mokrousov , Mathias Kläui

It has become a heated debate as to whether the orbital Hall effect of a material could generate a non-local orbital current and a non-zero spin-orbit torque on an adjacent magnetic layer. Here, we report unambiguous evidence that,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Qianbiao Liu , Lijun Zhu

Effectively manipulating magnetism in ferromagnet (FM) thin film nanostructures with an in-plane current has become feasible since the determination of a 'giant' spin Hall effect (SHE) in certain heavy metal (HM)/FM system. Recently, both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Yongxi Ou , Shengjie Shi , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

The orbital-Hall effect (OHE), similarly to the spin-Hall effect (SHE), refers to the creation of a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum that is induced by a longitudinally applied electric field. For systems in which the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Luis M. Canonico , Tarik P. Cysne , Tatiana G. Rappoport , R. B. Muniz

We present a detailed analysis of harmonic longitudinal and Hall voltage measurements for in-plane magnetized Pt/Co/Ta and Ta/Co/Pt trilayers in reference to Pt/Co and Ta/Co bilayers. Enhancement of spin-orbit torques (SOTs) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Anastasiia Moskaltsova , Denis Dyck , Jan-Michael Schmalhorst , Günter Reiss , Timo Kuschel

We study theoretically the effective spin Hall properties of a composite consisting of two materials with and without spin-orbit (SO) coupling. In particular, we assume that SO material represents a system of grains in a matrix with no SO.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Z. Yue , M. C. Prestgard , A. Tiwari , M. E. Raikh

We study the spin-orbit torque (SOT) effective fields in Cr/CoFeAl/MgO and Ru/CoFeAl/MgO magnetic heterostructures using the adiabatic harmonic Hall measurement. High-quality perpendicular-magnetic-anisotropy CoFeAl layers were grown on Cr…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Zhenchao Wen , Junyeon Kim , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Masamitsu Hayashi , Seiji Mitani

Orbitronics, which leverages the angular momentum of atomic orbitals for information transmission, provides a novel strategy to overcome the limitations of electronic devices. Unlike electron spin, orbital angular momentum (OAM) is strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Shilei Ji , Jianping Yang , Li Gao , Xing'ao Li

We studied the effect of inserting 0.5 nm-thick spacer layers (Ti, V, Cr, Mo, W) at the Pt/Co interface on the spin-orbit torques, Hall effect, magnetoresistance, saturation magnetization, and magnetic anisotropy. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Can Onur Avci , Geoffrey S. D. Beach , Pietro Gambardella

Our investigation reveals a groundbreaking discovery of a negative inverse orbital Hall effect (IOHE) in Ge thin films. We employed the innovative orbital pumping technique where spin-orbital coupled current is injected into Ge films using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 E. Santos , J. E. Abrao , J. L. Costa , J. G. S. Santos , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

Spin orbit torques (SOT) are used to manipulate magnetization of ferromagnets in heavy metal / ferromagnetic bilayers and thus are technologically relevant from magnetization switching perspective. This necessitates development of methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Akanksha Chouhan , Abhishek Erram , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

We unveil a hitherto concealed spin-orbit torque mechanism driven by orbital degrees of freedom in centrosymmetric two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (focusing on PtSe${}_2$ ). Using first-principles simulations, tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Luis M. Canonico , Jose H. García , Stephan Roche

While current-induced torque by orbital current has been experimentally found in various structures, evidence for its reciprocity has been missing so far. Here, we report experimental evidence of strong inverse orbital torque in YIG/Pt/CuOx…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 E. Santos , J. E. Abrão , Dongwook Go , L. K. de Assis , Yuriy Mokrousov , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

Magnetic quantum oscillations (MQO) of Hall coefficient are measured in rare-earth tritelluride TmTe$_{3}$ and shown to be much stronger and persist to higher temperature than the Shubnikov oscillations. It is general for MQO in strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-24 A. A. Sinchenko , P. D. Grigoriev , A. V. Frolov , A. P. Orlov , V. N. Zverev , A. Hadj-Azzem , E. Pachoud , P. Monceau