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Controlling magnetism using voltage is highly desired for applications, but remains challenging due to fundamental contradiction between polarity and magnetism. Here we propose a mechanism to manipulate magnetic domain walls in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-22 Jun Chen , Shuai Dong

Reversing the magnetization of a ferromagnet by spin transfer from a current, rather than by applying a magnetic field, is the central idea of an extensive current research. After a review of our experiments of current-induced magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fert , V. Cros , J. -M. George , J. Grollier , H. Jaffres , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , G. Faini , J. Ben Youssef , H. Le Gall

Manipulation of directional magnon propagation, known as magnon spin current, is essential for developing magnonic memory and logic devices featuring nonvolatile functionalities and ultralow power consumption. Magnon spin current can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Kaili Li , Lei Wang , Yu Wang , Yuanjun Guo , Shuping Lv , Yuewei He , Weiwei Lin , Tai Min , Shaojie Hu , Sen Yang , Dezhen Xue , Aqun Zheng , Shuming Yang , Xiangdong Ding

Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-induced magnetization switching shows promise for realizing ultrafast and reliable spintronics devices. Bipolar switching of perpendicular magnetization via SOT is achieved under an in-plane magnetic field collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Shunsuke Fukami , Chaoliang Zhang , Samik DuttaGupta , Hideo Ohno

An analytical formulation to compute a magnetic field generated from an uniformly magnetized cylinder ferromagnet is developed. Exact solutions of the magnetic field generated from the magnetization pointing in an arbitrary direction are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Tomohiro Taniguchi

In the development of spin-based electronic devices, a particular challenge is the manipulation of the magnetic state with high speed and low power consumption. Although research has focused on the current-induced spin-orbit torque based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 T. H. Kim , S. H. Han , B. K. Cho

The field of magnonics, which utilizes propagating spin waves for nano-scale transmission and processing of information, has been significantly advanced by the advent of the spin-orbit torque. The latter phenomenon can allow one to overcome…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 V. E. Demidov , S. Urazhdin , A. Anane , V. Cros , S. O. Demokritov

We provide evidence for the effects of spin polarized current on a nanofabricated antiferromagnet incorporated into a spin-valve structure. Signatures of current-induced effects include bipolar steps in differential resistance,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Urazhdin , Nicholas Anthony

Twisted spin waves attracted research attentions lately and the orbital angular momentum they carry may be utilized in communication and computing technologies. In this work, we manifest by micromagnetic simulations that twisted spin wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Peiyuan Huang1 , Ruifang Wang

Despite the unprecedented downscaling of CMOS integrated circuits, memory-intensive machine learning and artificial intelligence applications are limited by data conversion between memory and processor. There is a challenging quest for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Korbinian Baumgaertl , Dirk Grundler

We reverse the magnetic vortex curling direction of ferromagnetic nanodisk by applying a circular Oersted field. The nanodisk is fabricated without breaking its symmetry. The Oersted field is induced by passing current through an atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Wen-Ming Ju , Mark Tuominen , Nihar Pradhan , Jessica Bickel , Kathy Aidala

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

Spin orbit torque (SOT) provides an efficient way of generating spin current that promises to significantly reduce the current required for switching nanomagnets. However, an in-plane current generated SOT cannot deterministically switch a…

The emerging field of nano-magnonics utilizes high-frequency waves of magnetization - the spin waves - for the transmission and processing of information on the nanoscale. The advent of spin-transfer torque has spurred significant advances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Boris Divinskiy , Vladislav E. Demidov , Sergei Urazhdin , Ryan Freeman , Anatoly B. Rinkevich , Sergej O. Demokritov

We demonstrate the use of the magnetic-field-dependence of highly spatially confined, GHz-frequency ferromagnetic resonances in a ferromagnetic nanostructure for the detection of adsorbed magnetic nanoparticles. This is achieved in a large…

We simulate the switching behavior of nanoscale synthetic antiferromagnets (SAFs), inspired by recent experimental progress in spin-orbit-torque switching of crystal antiferromagnets. The SAF consists of two ferromagnetic thin films with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Michael S. Ackermann , Satoru Emori

We examine the possibility of using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with directly substituted chromium atoms as spintronic device. Using density functional theory, we simulate a voltage bias across a constructed GNR in a device setup, where a…

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Using mean-field theory, we compute the evolution of the magnetic field in a cylinder with outer perfectly conducting boundaries, an imposed axial magnetic and electric field. The thus injected magnetic helicity in the system can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Koen Kemel , Axel Brandenburg , Hantao Ji

We present switching field distributions of spin-transfer assisted magnetization reversal in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multilayer spin-valve nanopillars at room temperature. Switching field measurements of the Co/Ni free layer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 D. B. Gopman , D. Bedau , S. Mangin , E. E. Fullerton , J. A. Katine , A. D. Kent