Heating effects in Bi-doped Cu nanowires for spintronics: atomic resolution in-situ insights

Background incl. aims CuBi alloys are predicted to exhibit a giant spin Hall effect (SHE), making them promising materials for developing spintronic devices. This prediction was supported by the direct observation of SHE in Cu95Bi5 films by X-ray spectroscopy. However, the material composition and s...

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Autores: Guedeja-Marrón, Alejandra, Saura-Múzquiz, Matilde, Garcia-Manuz, Inés, Beltran, Juan I., Andersen, Henrik L., Zeng, Lunjie J., Ranjan, Alok, Olsson, Eva, Perna, Paolo, Pérez , Lucas, Varela, María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/423761
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/423761
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:HR-STEM
EELS
in-situ
nanowires
spintronics
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Sumario:Background incl. aims CuBi alloys are predicted to exhibit a giant spin Hall effect (SHE), making them promising materials for developing spintronic devices. This prediction was supported by the direct observation of SHE in Cu95Bi5 films by X-ray spectroscopy. However, the material composition and structure, e.g. crystallinity, crystallite size, effective Bi insertion into the Cu lattice or formation of metallic clusters of Bi, can affect the spin Hall angle, which is related to the efficiency of the spin-to-charge current conversion. This efficiency becomes more and more critical in the case of reduced dimensionality systems, where some dimensions may become smaller than the spin diffusion length. Changes taking place during device operation, such as those related to Joule heating, may also affect the system performance.