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We study current-driven magnetization switching in nanofabricated magnetic trilayers, varying the magnetoresistance in three different ways. First, we insert a strongly spin-scattering layer between the magnetic trilayer and one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

The current driven magnetization dynamics of a thin-film, three magnetic terminal device (spin-flip transistor) is investigated theoretically. We consider a magnetization configuration in which all magnetizations are in the device plane,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xuhui Wang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Teruo Ono

We present experimental results on the displacement of a domain wall by injection of a dc current through the wall. The samples are 1 micron wide long stripes of a CoO/Co/Cu/NiFe classical spin valve structure. The stripes have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Grollier , D. Lacour , V. Cros , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , A. Fert , D. Adam , G. Faini

In this paper we study magnetization excitations induced in a thin extended film by a spin-polarized dc-current injected through a point contact in the current-perpendicular-to-plane (CPP) geometry. Using full-scale micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitri V. Berkov , Natalia L. Gorn

In order to explain recent experiments reporting a motion of magnetic domain walls (DW) in nanowires carrying a current, we propose a modification of the spin transfer torque term in the Landau-Lifchitz-Gilbert equation. We show that it…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Thiaville , Y. Nakatani , J. Miltat , Y Suzuki

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

We have examined the spin polarization of the electron current in a ferromagnetic metal induced by the spin-dependent surface screening at the dielectric-ferromagnetic metal (D-FM) interface. In an applied ac voltage, the dynamic band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

We consider the spin torque induced by a current flowing ballistically through a magnetic domain wall. In addition to a global pressure in the direction of the electronic flow, the torque has an internal structure of comparable magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Waintal , Michel Viret

We show that an unpolarized electric current incident perpendicular to the plane of a thin ferromagnet can excite a spin-wave instability transverse to the current direction if source and drain contacts are not symmetric. The instability,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. L. Polianski , P. W. Brouwer

Spin-polarized transport through a band-gap-matched ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x} Se/ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x}Se/ZnSe multilayer structure is investigated. The resonant transport is shown to occur at different energies for different spins owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

We propose a method that allows power conversion from DC magnetic fields to AC electric voltages using domain wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. The device concept relies on spinmotive force, voltage generation due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa

Finding a new control parameter for magnetic domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostructures is important in general and in particular for the spintronics applications. Here, we show that a circularly polarized magnetic field (CPMF) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. Yan , X. R. Wang

We consider dc-electronic transport through a nanowire suspended between normal- and spin-polarized metal leads in the presence of an external magnetic field. We show that magnetomotive coupling between the electrical current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Danko Radić , Anders Nordenfelt , Anatoli M. Kadigrobov , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

We investigate optically excited THz standing spin waves in noncollinear magnetic bilayers. Using femtosecond laser-pulse excitation, a spin current is generated in the first ferromagnetic (FM) layer, and flows through a conductive spacer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Mark L. M. Lalieu , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

Current-induced torques on ferromagnetic nanoparticles and on domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are normally understood in terms of transfer of conserved spin angular momentum between spin-polarized currents and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

We propose a time-reversal-even spin generation in second order of electric fields, which dominates the current induced spin polarization in a wide class of centrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and leads to a novel nonlinear spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Cong Xiao , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaolong Feng , Huiying Liu , Guang-Yu Guo , Qian Niu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Spin current generation through non-relativistic spin splittings, found in uncompensated magnets and d-wave altermagnets, is desirable for low-power spintronics. Such spin currents, however, are symmetry forbidden in conventional collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Sajjan Sheoran , Pratibha Dev

We study dynamics of the magnetization coupled to the surface Dirac fermions of a three di- mensional topological insulator. By solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the presence of charge current, we find current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takehito Yokoyama

We have directly measured coherent high-frequency magnetization dynamics in ferromagnet films induced by a spin-polarized DC current. The precession frequency can be tuned over a range of several gigahertz, by varying the applied current.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. Rippard , M. R. Pufall , S. Kaka , S. E. Russek , T. J. Silva

We show that a static electric field $E_x$ gives rise to a shift of the spin wave dispersion relation $\omega(q_y-q_E)$ in the direction of the wavenumber $q_y$ of the quantity $q_E=-\gamma_LE_x/c^2$. This effect is caused by the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Vittorio Basso , Patrizio Ansalone