Large field-like torque in amorphous Ru2Sn3 originated from the intrinsic spin Hall effect
| Autor: | Peterson, Thomas J., DC, Mahendra, Fan, Yihong, Chen, Junyang, Zhang, Delin, Li, Hongshi, Swatek, Przemyslaw, Garcia-Barriocanal, Javier, Wang, Jian-Ping |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 045003 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.045003 |
| Popis: | We investigated temperature dependent current driven spin-orbit torques in magnetron sputtered Ru2Sn3 (4 and 10 nm) /Co20Fe60B20 (5 nm) layered structures with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. The room temperature damping-like and field-like spin torque efficiencies of the amorphous Ru2Sn3 films were measured to be 0.14 +- 0.008 (0.07 +- 0.012) and -0.03 +- 0.006 (-0.20 +- 0.009), for the 4 (10 nm) films respectively, by utilizing the second harmonic Hall technique. The large field-like torque in the relatively thicker Ru2Sn3 (10 nm) thin film is unique compared to the traditional spin Hall materials interfaced with thick magnetic layers with in-plane magnetic anisotropy which typically have dominant damping-like and negligible field-like torques. Additionally, the observed room temperature field-like torque efficiency in Ru2Sn3 (10 nm)/CoFeB (5 nm) is up to three times larger than the damping-like torque (-0.20 +- 0.009 and 0.07 +- 0.012, respectively) and thirty times larger at 50 K (-0.29 +- 0.014 and 0.009 +- 0.017, respectively). The temperature dependence of the field-like torques show dominant contributions from the intrinsic spin Hall effect while the damping-like torques show dominate contributions from the extrinsic spin Hall effects, skew scattering and side jump. Through macro-spin calculations, we found that including field-like torques on the order or larger than the damping-like torque can reduce the switching critical current and decrease magnetization procession for a perpendicular ferromagnetic layer. Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Materials |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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