Recent developments in perpendicular magnetic anisotropy thin films for data storage applications

B Tudu, A Tiwari - Vacuum, 2017 - Elsevier
The incessant demand for higher density, faster access time and lower power consuming
memory devices such as random access memories have driven tremendous research and …

Spin-orbit torques: Materials, physics, and devices

X Han, X Wang, C Wan, G Yu, X Lv - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Spintronics, that is, the utilization of electron spin to enrich the functionality of
microelectronics, has led to the inception of numerous novel devices, particularly magnetic …

Spin–orbit torque switching in a T-type magnetic configuration with current orthogonal to easy axes

WJ Kong, CH Wan, X Wang, BS Tao, L Huang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Different symmetry breaking ways determine various magnetization switching modes driven
by spin–orbit torques (SOT). For instance, an applied or effective field parallel to applied …

Gilbert dam** constants of Ta/CoFeB/MgO (Ta) thin films measured by optical detection of precessional magnetization dynamics

S Iihama, S Mizukami, H Naganuma, M Oogane… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The magnetization dynamics of both Ta/CoFeB/MgO and Ta/CoFeB/Ta films were
investigated using an all-optical pump-probe method. The magnetic field strength and the …

Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at Fe/MgO interface

JW Koo, S Mitani, TT Sasaki, H Sukegawa… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of 1.4 MJ/m 3 was observed from ultrathin
Fe/MgO (001) bilayers grown on Cr-buffered MgO (001). The PMA strongly depends on the …

MgO (001) barrier based magnetic tunnel junctions and their device applications

XF Han, SS Ali, SH Liang - Science China Physics, Mechanics and …, 2013 - Springer
Spintronics has received a great attention and significant interest within the past decades,
and provided considerable and remarked applications in industry and electronic information …

All-electrical manipulation of magnetization in magnetic tunnel junction via spin–orbit torque

WJ Kong, CH Wan, CY Guo, C Fang, BS Tao… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Besides spin-transfer torque, spin–orbit torque (SOT) provides us with another electrical way
for develo** magnetic random access memory (MRAM) based on magnetic tunnel …

Impact of Ta diffusion on the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of Ta/CoFeB/MgO

N Miyakawa, DC Worledge, K Kita - IEEE Magnetics Letters, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effects of Ta diffusion on the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) of Ta/Co 0.6 Fe 0.2 B
0.2 (12.5 Å)/MgO stacks were investigated. We found that Ta initially mixed with Co 0.6 Fe …

Spin pum** and inverse spin Hall effect in germanium

JC Rojas-Sánchez, M Cubukcu, A Jain… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We have measured the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in n-Ge at room temperature. The spin
current in germanium was generated by spin pum** from a CoFeB/MgO magnetic tunnel …

Spin torque nano-oscillator driven by combined spin injection from tunneling and spin Hall current

M Tarequzzaman, T Böhnert, M Decker… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Spin-transfer torque nano-oscillators (STNO) are important candidates for several
applications based on ultra-tunable microwave generation and detection. The microwave …