Non-collinear antiferromagnetic spintronics

BH Rimmler, B Pal, SSP Parkin - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Spintronics aims to go beyond the charge-based paradigm of silicon-based microelectronics
by utilizing the spin degree of freedom for memory, storage and computing applications …

Switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin–orbit torque

L Zhu - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic materials with strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are of great interest for
the development of nonvolatile magnetic memory and computing technologies due to their …

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization at room temperature using out-of-plane spins from TaIrTe4

Y Liu, G Shi, D Kumar, T Kim, S Shi, D Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The development of spintronic devices based on spin–orbit torque requires the electrical-
current-driven field-free switching of magnetization in materials with perpendicular magnetic …

Emerging antiferromagnets for spintronics

H Chen, L Liu, X Zhou, Z Meng, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Antiferromagnets constitute promising contender materials for next‐generation spintronic
devices with superior stability, scalability, and dynamics. Nevertheless, the perception of …

Néel spin currents in antiferromagnets

DF Shao, YY Jiang, J Ding, SH Zhang, ZA Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Ferromagnets are known to support spin-polarized currents that control various spin-
dependent transport phenomena useful for spintronics. On the contrary, fully compensated …

Robust Field‐Free Switching Using Large Unconventional Spin‐Orbit Torque in an All‐Van der Waals Heterostructure

Y Zhang, X Ren, R Liu, Z Chen, X Wu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging all‐van der Waals (vdW) magnetic heterostructure provides a new platform to
control the magnetization by the electric field beyond the traditional spintronics devices. One …

Field-free spin–orbit torque switching in ferromagnetic trilayers at sub-ns timescales

Q Yang, D Han, S Zhao, J Kang, F Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current-induced spin torques enable the electrical control of the magnetization with low
energy consumption. Conventional magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices rely …

Anomalous spin current anisotropy in a noncollinear antiferromagnet

C Cao, S Chen, RC **ao, Z Zhu, G Yu, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cubic materials host high crystal symmetry and hence are not expected to support
anisotropy in transport phenomena. In contrast to this common expectation, here we report …

Asymmetric magnetization switching and programmable complete Boolean logic enabled by long-range intralayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Q Liu, L Liu, G **ng, L Zhu - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
After decades of efforts, some fundamental physics for electrical switching of magnetization
is still missing. Here, we report the discovery of the long-range intralayer Dzyaloshinskii …

Field-free spin-orbit torque switching via out-of-plane spin-polarization induced by an antiferromagnetic insulator/heavy metal interface

M Wang, J Zhou, X Xu, T Zhang, Z Zhu, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Manipulating spin polarization orientation is challenging but crucial for field-free spintronic
devices. Although such manipulation has been demonstrated in a limited number of …