Spin-orbit torques: Materials, mechanisms, performances, and potential applications

C Song, R Zhang, L Liao, Y Zhou, X Zhou… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) is attracting increasing interest and exciting
significant research activity. We aim to provide a comprehensive review of recent progress in …

Modulation of heavy metal/ferromagnetic metal interface for high‐performance spintronic devices

S Peng, D Zhu, J Zhou, B Zhang, A Cao… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spintronic devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions and skyrmions have attracted
considerable attention due to features such as nonvolatility, high scalability, low power, and …

Orbital torque in magnetic bilayers

D Lee, D Go, HJ Park, W Jeong, HW Ko, D Yun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The orbital Hall effect describes the generation of the orbital current flowing in a
perpendicular direction to an external electric field, analogous to the spin Hall effect. As the …

Room-Temperature Spin Hall Effect in Graphene/MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructures

CK Safeer, J Ingla-Aynés, F Herling, JH Garcia… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Graphene is an excellent material for long-distance spin transport but allows little spin
manipulation. Transition-metal dichalcogenides imprint their strong spin–orbit coupling into …

Ultrafast THz probing of nonlocal orbital current in transverse multilayer metallic heterostructures

S Kumar, S Kumar - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
THz generation from femtosecond photoexcited spintronic heterostructures has become a
versatile tool for investigating ultrafast spin-transport and transient charge-current in a non …

Large Multidirectional Spin-to-Charge Conversion in Low-Symmetry Semimetal MoTe2 at Room Temperature

CK Safeer, N Ontoso, J Ingla-Aynés, F Herling… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Efficient and versatile spin-to-charge current conversion is crucial for the development of
spintronic applications, which strongly rely on the ability to electrically generate and detect …

Spin–orbit magnetic state readout in scaled ferromagnetic/heavy metal nanostructures

VT Pham, I Groen, S Manipatruni, WY Choi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The efficient detection of a magnetic state at nanoscale dimensions is important for the
development of spin-logic devices. Magnetoresistance effects can be used to detect …

[HTML][HTML] Gate tunability of highly efficient spin-to-charge conversion by spin Hall effect in graphene proximitized with WSe2

F Herling, CK Safeer, J Ingla-Aynés, N Ontoso… - APL Materials, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The proximity effect opens ways to transfer properties from one material into another and is
especially important in two-dimensional (2D) materials. In van der Waals heterostructures …

Large damping-like spin–orbit torque and improved device performance utilizing mixed-phase Ta

A Kumar, R Sharma, KI Ali Khan… - ACS Applied …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The β phase of Ta is known to exhibit higher spin Hall efficiency compared to other heavy
metals such as Pt. However, the larger resistivity of β-phase Ta leads to higher power …

Large spin current generation by the spin Hall effect in mixed crystalline phase Ta thin films

A Kumar, R Bansal, S Chaudhary, PK Muduli - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Manipulation of the magnetization in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic bilayers via the spin-orbit
torque requires high spin Hall conductivity of the heavy metal. We measure inverse spin Hall …