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Spin-orbit effects [1-4] have the potential of radically changing the field of spintronics by allowing transfer of spin angular momentum to a whole new class of materials. In a seminal letter to Nature [5], Kajiwara et al. showed that by…

The interface between a ferro-/ferrimagnetic insulator and a normal metal can support spin currents polarized collinear with and perpendicular to the magnetization direction. The flow of angular momentum perpendicular to the magnetization…

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We report that Joule heating can be used to enhance the interfacial spin conductivity between a metal and an oxide. We observe that local annealing of the interface at about 550\,K by injecting large current densities…

Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of spin-orbit torque in ferromagnetic metal/heavy metal bilayers and exploitation of it for magnetization switching using an in-plane current. As the spin-orbit torque is inversely…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yanjun Xu , Yumeng Yang , Kui Yao , Baoxi Xu , Yihong Wu

The proximity coupled topological insulator / superconductor (TI/SC) bilayer system is a representative system to realize topological superconductivity. In order to better understand this unique state and design devices from the TI/SC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-01 Seokjin Bae , Seunghun Lee , Xiaohang Zhang , Ichiro Takeuchi , Steven M. Anlage

The magnetisation dynamics of yttrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12, YIG) are key to the operation of spintronic and microwave devices. Here, we report a pathway to manipulate the frequency, damping and absorption of YIG thin films via interface…

Topological insulators and giant spin-orbit toque switching of nanomagnets are one of the frontier topics for the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Spin-circuit representations involving different materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Kuntal Roy

Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) and bismuth (Bi) substituted YIG (Bi0.1Y2.9Fe5O12, BYG) films are grown in-situ on single crystalline Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) substrates [with (100) and (111) orientations] using pulsed laser deposition…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-14 Ganesh Gurjar , Vinay Sharma , Bijoy K. Kuanr , S. Patnaik

A Twinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) steel with a nominal composition of Fe-16.4Mn-0.9C-0.5Si-0.05Nb-0.05V was deformed to an engineering strain of 6\%. The strain around the deformation twins were mapped using the 4D-STEM technique. Strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-03 T W J Kwok , T P McAuliffe , A K Ackerman , B H Savitzky , M Danaie , C Ophus , D Dye

Nickel/bismuth (Ni/Bi) bilayers are a promising platform for exploring unconventional superconductivity. Ferromagnetic Ni is coupled to Bi, a strong spin orbit metal that only becomes superconducting below approx 10 mK, forming a bilayer…

Topological insulators (TIs) are intriguing materials for advanced computing applications based on spintronics because they can host robust spin effects. For instance, TIs have intrinsically large spin generation enabled by their large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Sharadh Jois , Gregory M. Stephen , Nick Blumenschein , Patrick J. Taylor , Aubrey T. Hanbicki , Adam L. Friedman

The topological semimetal FeSn antiferromagnet, characterized by its kagome lattice, two-dimensional flat bands, and Dirac-like surface states, holds immense promise for spintronic applications. In this work, for the first time, we…

By combining density functional theory (DFT) and density matrix renormalization group calculations, we investigate the unusual pressure dependence of superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) in the nickelate superconductor…

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A key challenge in manipulating the magnetization in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic bilayers via the spin-orbit torque is to identify materials that exhibit an efficient charge-to-spin current conversion. Ab initio electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Xuelei Sui , Chong Wang , Jinwoong Kim , Jianfeng Wang , S. H. Rhim , Wenhui Duan , Nicholas Kioussis

Enhancing the spin-orbit interaction in graphene, via proximity effects with topological insulators, could create a novel 2D system that combines nontrivial spin textures with high electron mobility. In order to engineer practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Kenan Song , David Soriano , Aron W. Cummings , Roberto Robles , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche

Terahertz (THz) spin-to-charge conversion has become an increasingly important process for THz pulse generation and as a tool to probe ultrafast spin interactions at magnetic interfaces. However, its relation to traditional, steady state,…

The superposition of flexoelectronic doping and topological phonons give rise to topological electronic magnetism of phonon in an inhomogeneously strained Si in the bilayer structure with metal. In case of ferromagnetic metal and Si bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Ravindra G Bhardwaj , Anand Katailiha , Paul C. Lou , Ward P. Beyermann , Sandeep Kumar

In this study, we investigate the spin-charge current conversion characteristics of chemically disordered ferromagnetic single FePt thin films by spin-pumping ferromagnetic resonance experiments performed on both a resonance cavity and on…

We investigate the enhancement of Gilbert damping at 2DHG/ferromagnetic insulator (FI) interfaces, where spin pumping from the FI layer injects spins into the 2DHG, and cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) significantly boosts spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Sushmita Saha , Alestin Mawrie

We report unidirectional transmission of micron-wide spin waves beams in a 55 nm thin YIG. We downscaled a chiral coupling technique implementing Ni80Fe20 nanowires arrays with different widths and lattice spacing to study the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 L. Temdie , V. Castel , C. Dubs , G. Pradhan , J. Solano , H. Majjad , R. Bernard , Y. Henry , M. Bailleul , V. Vlaminck