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 …

Spin-torque and spin-Hall nano-oscillators

T Chen, RK Dumas, A Eklund, PK Muduli… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the state of the art in spin-torque and spin-Hall-effect-driven nano-
oscillators. After a brief introduction to the underlying physics, the authors discuss different …

Long-range mutual synchronization of spin Hall nano-oscillators

AA Awad, P Dürrenfeld, A Houshang, M Dvornik… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
The spin Hall effect in a non-magnetic metal with spin–orbit coupling injects transverse spin
currents into adjacent magnetic layers, where the resulting spin transfer torque can drive …

The 2014 magnetism roadmap

RL Stamps, S Breitkreutz, J Åkerman… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetism is a very fascinating and dynamic field. Especially in the last 30 years, there have
been many major advances in a range of areas from novel fundamental phenomena to new …

Dynamically stabilized magnetic skyrmions

Y Zhou, E Iacocca, AA Awad, RK Dumas… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin textures that manifest themselves as
quasiparticles in ferromagnetic thin films or noncentrosymmetric bulk materials. So far …

Magnetization oscillations and waves driven by pure spin currents

VE Demidov, S Urazhdin, G De Loubens, O Klein… - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the studies of pure spin currents–flows of angular momentum (spin) not
accompanied by the electric currents–have opened new horizons for the emerging …

Spin-wave-beam driven synchronization of nanocontact spin-torque oscillators

A Houshang, E Iacocca, P Dürrenfeld, SR Sani… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The synchronization of multiple nanocontact spin-torque oscillators (NC-STOs) is mediated
by propagating spin waves (SWs). Although it has been shown that the Oersted field …

Spin-orbit torque–driven propagating spin waves

H Fulara, M Zahedinejad, R Khymyn, AA Awad… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Spin-orbit torque (SOT) can drive sustained spin wave (SW) auto-oscillations in a class of
emerging microwave devices known as spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs), which have …

Mutually synchronized bottom-up multi-nanocontact spin–torque oscillators

S Sani, J Persson, SM Mohseni, Y Pogoryelov… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Spin–torque oscillators offer a unique combination of nanosize, ultrafast modulation rates
and ultrawide band signal generation from 100 MHz to close to 100 GHz. However, their low …

A 20 nm spin Hall nano-oscillator

P Dürrenfeld, AA Awad, A Houshang, RK Dumas… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) are an emerging class of pure spin current driven
microwave signal generators. Through the fabrication of 20 nm nano-constrictions in Pt/NiFe …