Dependence of spin-diffusion transparency and spin-orbit torques on interface structure in NiFe/Pt bilayers

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One of the main challenges in spintronics is to provide a link between magnetic elements and conventional electronic circuits. For the switching of a magnetic memory-element an electric current is necessary. Spin-transfer-torque has allowed much progress in this area but switching remains very inefficient. There is a completely new approach which is based on magnetic torques using spin-orbit torques (SOTs). One way to generate SOT is to use the spin-Hall effect in ferromagnetic(FM)/nonmagnetic(NM) structures. The spin-Hall effect will generate a spin-current that drifts across the FM/NM interface applying a torque on the FM, but the efficiency of the current depends on the transparency of the interface to the spin-current. We will use PNR to study the magnetic structure of deliberately modified interfaces and then relate this back to the SOT efficiency measured on the same samples.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84794917
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84794917
Provenance
Creator Dr Mu Wang; Dr Hidekazu Kurebayashi; Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke; Mr Troy Dion
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-22T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-25T08:06:46Z