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Spin Signals in Lateral Spin Valves with Double Nonmagnetic Bottom Electrodes

  • Lee, B.C.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.81-84
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    • 2008
  • Spin injection and detection in lateral spin valves with double nonmagnetic bottom electrodes are investigated theoretically. Spin-polarized current injected from a magnetic electrode is split to two bottom electrodes, and nonlocal spin signals between the other magnetic electrode and the nonmagnetic electrodes are calculated from drift-diffusion equations. It is shown that the spin signal is approximately proportional to the associated current in the electrode.

Spin-polarized Current Switching of Co/Cu/Py Pac-man type II Spin-valve

  • Lyle, Andrew;Hong, Yang-Ki;Choi, Byoung-Chul;Abo, Gavin;Bae, Seok;Jalli, Jeevan;Lee, Jae-Jin;Park, Mun-Hyoun;Syslo, Ryan
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2010
  • We investigated spin-polarized current switching of Pac-man type II (PM-II) nanoelements in Pac-man shaped nanoscale spin-valves (Co/Cu/Py) using micromagnetic simulations. The effects of slot angle and antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer were simulated to obtain optimum switching in less than 2 ns. At a critical slot angle of $105^{\circ}$, the lowest current density for anti-parallel to parallel (AP-P) switching was observed due to no vortex or antivortex formation during the magnetic reversal process. All other slot angles for AP-P formed a vortex or antivortex during the magnetization reversal process. Additionally, a vortex or anti-vortex formed for all slot angles for parallel to anti-parallel (P-AP) switching. The addition of an AFM layer caused the current density to decrease significantly for AP-P and P-AP at slot angles less than $90^{\circ}$. However, at slot angles greater than $90^{\circ}$, the current density tended to decrease by less amounts or actually increased slightly as shape anisotropy became more dominant. This allowed ultra-fast switching with 5.05 and $5.65{\times}10^8\;A/cm^2$ current densities for AP-P and P-AP, respectively, at a slot angle of $105^{\circ}$.

Spin-polarization and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in GaAs

  • Zohar, S.;Ryan, P.J.;Kim, J.W.;Keavney, D.J.
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1182-1184
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    • 2018
  • The combination of angular spin momentum with electronics is a promising successor to charge-based electronics. The conduction bands in GaAs may become spin-polarized via optical spin pumping, doping with magnetic ions, or induction of a moment with an external magnetic field. We investigated the spin populations in GaAs with x-ray magnetic circular dichroism for each of these three cases. We find strong anti-symmetric lineshapes at the Ga $L_3$ edge indicating conduction band spin splitting, with differences in line width and amplitude depending on the source of spin polarization.

Effect of spin-polarized current injection on pair tunneling properties of $Bi_2$$Sr_2$Ca$Cu_2$$O_{8+x}$ intrinsic Josephson junctions

  • Shin, Ho-Seop;Lee, Hu-Jong;Do Bang;Nguyen Khac Mac
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.5-8
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    • 2003
  • We studied the effect of spin injection on tunneling conduction properties of intrinsic Josephson junctions formed in $Bi_2$$Sr_2$$CaCu_2$$O_{ 8+x}$ single crystals. properties of an identical stack (10${\times}$5.0${\times}$0.030 $\mu\textrm{m}^3$) of intrinsic Josephson junctions were compared for the bias current injected through Au and Co electrodes. The suppression of the superconducting gap in the $_2$ double layers and the interlayer Josephson critical current was manifested in the tunneling current-voltage characteristics of the stacks. This effect appears to be caused by the pair breaking associated with spin-polarized carriers injected from the Co electrode into the $Bi_2$$Sr_2$$_2$O$CaCu_{ 8+x}$ single crystal. This study may provide valuable information on clarifying the mechanism of high- $T_{c}$ superconductivity.y.y.

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Current-Induced Magnetic Domain-Wall Motion by Spin Transfer Torque: Collective Coordinate Approach with Domain-Wall Width Variation

  • Jung, Soon-Wook;Lee, Hyun-Woo
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2007
  • The spin transfer torque generated by a spin-polarized current can induce the shift of the magnetic domain-wall position. In this work, we study theoretically the current-induced domain-wall motion by using the collective coordinate approach [Gen Tatara and Hiroshi Kohno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 86601 (2004)]. The approach is extended to include not only the domain-wall position and the polarization angle changes but also the domain-wall width variation. It is demonstrated that the width variation affects the critical current.