Current-induced domain wall motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic elements

O Boulle, G Malinowski, M Kläui - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2011 - Elsevier
The manipulation of a magnetic domain wall (DW) by a spin polarized current in
ferromagnetic nanowires has attracted tremendous interest during the last years due to …

Domain-wall velocities of up to 750 m s−1 driven by exchange-coupling torque in synthetic antiferromagnets

SH Yang, KS Ryu, S Parkin - Nature nanotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
The operation of racetrack memories,, is based on the motion of domain walls in atomically
thin, perpendicularly magnetized nanowires, which are interfaced with adjacent metal layers …

Long-range orbital torque by momentum-space hotspots

D Go, D Jo, KW Kim, S Lee, MG Kang, BG Park… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
While it is often assumed that the orbital response is suppressed and short ranged due to
strong crystal field potential and orbital quenching, we show that the orbital response can be …

Spin transfer torques

DC Ralph, MD Stiles - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2008 - Elsevier
This tutorial article introduces the physics of spin transfer torques in magnetic devices. Our
intention is that it be accessible to beginning graduate students. We provide an elementary …

Manipulating exchange bias by spin–orbit torque

PH Lin, BY Yang, MH Tsai, PC Chen, KF Huang… - Nature Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Exchange bias, a shift in the hysteresis loop of a ferromagnet arising from interfacial
exchange coupling between adjacent ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic layers, is an …

Quantifying interface and bulk contributions to spin–orbit torque in magnetic bilayers

X Fan, H Celik, J Wu, C Ni, KJ Lee, VO Lorenz… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Spin–orbit interaction-driven phenomena such as the spin Hall and Rashba effect in
ferromagnetic/heavy metal bilayers enables efficient manipulation of the magnetization via …

Observation of the nonlocal spin-orbital effective field

X Fan, J Wu, Y Chen, MJ Jerry, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The spin-orbital interaction in heavy nonmagnetic metal/ferromagnetic metal bilayer systems
has attracted great attention and exhibited promising potentials in magnetic logic devices …

Ultrafast spin-transfer torque driven by femtosecond pulsed-laser excitation

AJ Schellekens, KC Kuiper, R De Wit… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Spin currents have an important role in many proposed spintronic devices, as they govern
the switching process of magnetic bits in random access memories or drive domain wall …

Giant spin-accumulation signal and pure spin-current-induced reversible magnetization switching

T Yang, T Kimura, Y Otani - Nature Physics, 2008 - nature.com
A number of proposed next-generation electronic devices, including novel memory elements
and versatile transistor circuits, rely on spin currents, that is, the flow of electron angular …

Novel domain wall dynamics in synthetic antiferromagnets

SH Yang, S Parkin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article, we review fascinating new mechanisms on recently observed remarkable
current driven domain wall motion in nanowires formed from perpendicularly magnetized …