Study of Spin-Orbit Interactions and Interlayer Ferromagnetic Coupling in Co/Pt/Co Trilayers in a Wide Range of Heavy-Metal Thickness
The spin-orbit torque, a torque induced by a charge current flowing through the heavy-metal-conducting layer with strong spin-orbit interactions, provides an efficient way to control the magnetization direction in heavy-metal/ferromagnet nanostructures, required for applications in the emergent magn...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/265945 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/265945 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ferromagnetic resonance Spin hall effect Magnetoresistance Spin-orbit torques Rasbha-Eldestein effect |
| Sumario: | The spin-orbit torque, a torque induced by a charge current flowing through the heavy-metal-conducting layer with strong spin-orbit interactions, provides an efficient way to control the magnetization direction in heavy-metal/ferromagnet nanostructures, required for applications in the emergent magnetic technologies like random access memories, high-frequency nano-oscillators, or bioinspired neuromorphic computations. We study the interface properties, magnetization dynamics, magnetostatic features, and spin-orbit interactions within the multilayer system Ti(2)/Co(1)/Pt(0-4)/Co(1)/MgO(2)/Ti(2) (thicknesses in nanometers) patterned by optical lithography on micrometer-sized bars. In the investigated devices, Pt is used as a source of the spin current and as a nonmagnetic spacer with variable thickness, which enables the magnitude of the interlayer ferromagnetic exchange coupling to be effectively tuned. We also find the Pt thickness-dependent changes in magnetic anisotropies, magnetoresistances, effective Hall angles, and, eventually, spin-orbit torque fields at interfaces. The experimental findings are supported by the relevant interface structure-related simulations, micromagnetic, macrospin, as well as the spin drift-diffusion models. Finally, the contribution of the spin-orbital Edelstein-Rashba interfacial fields is also briefly discussed in the analysis. |
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