Roadmap of spin–orbit torques

Q Shao, P Li, L Liu, H Yang, S Fukami… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spin–orbit torque (SOT) is an emerging technology that enables the efficient manipulation of
spintronic devices. The initial processes of interest in SOTs involved electric fields, spin …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral spintronics

SH Yang, R Naaman, Y Paltiel, SSP Parkin - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
As spins move through a chiral electric field, the resulting spin current can acquire chirality
through a spin–orbit interaction. Such spin currents are highly useful in creating spin–orbit …

[HTML][HTML] Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable energy-efficient magnetoelectric spin–orbit logic

S Manipatruni, DE Nikonov, CC Lin, TA Gosavi, H Liu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Since the early 1980s, most electronics have relied on the use of complementary metal–
oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) transistors. However, the principles of CMOS operation …

[HTML][HTML] Gate-tuneable and chirality-dependent charge-to-spin conversion in tellurium nanowires

F Calavalle, M Suárez-Rodríguez, B Martín-García… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral materials are an ideal playground for exploring the relation between symmetry,
relativistic effects and electronic transport. For instance, chiral organic molecules have been …

Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems

A Manchon, J Železný, IM Miron, T Jungwirth… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in inversion-asymmetric magnetic crystals and structures has emerged
as a powerful tool to generate complex magnetic textures, interconvert charge and spin …

[HTML][HTML] Room-temperature high spin–orbit torque due to quantum confinement in sputtered BixSe(1–x) films

M Dc, R Grassi, JY Chen, M Jamali… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
The spin–orbit torque (SOT) that arises from materials with large spin–orbit coupling
promises a path for ultralow power and fast magnetic-based storage and computational …

Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …

Highly efficient and tunable spin-to-charge conversion through Rashba coupling at oxide interfaces

E Lesne, Y Fu, S Oyarzún, JC Rojas-Sánchez… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The spin–orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. As a result, a charge
current running through a material with strong spin–orbit coupling generates a transverse …

Room temperature magnetization switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures by spin-orbit torques

Y Wang, D Zhu, Y Wu, Y Yang, J Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological insulators with spin-momentum-locked topological surface states are expected
to exhibit a giant spin-orbit torque in the topological insulator/ferromagnet systems. To date …