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Spin Hall voltages from a.c. and d.c. spin currents.
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Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2014 Apr 30; Vol. 5, pp. 3768. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Apr 30. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- In spin electronics, the spin degree of freedom is used to transmit and store information. To this end the ability to create pure spin currents--that is, without net charge transfer--is essential. When the magnetization vector in a ferromagnet-normal metal junction is excited, the spin pumping effect leads to the injection of pure spin currents into the normal metal. The polarization of this spin current is time-dependent and contains a very small d.c. component. Here we show that the large a.c. component of the spin currents can be detected efficiently using the inverse spin Hall effect. The observed a.c.-inverse spin Hall voltages are one order of magnitude larger than the conventional d.c.-inverse spin Hall voltages measured on the same device. Our results demonstrate that ferromagnet-normal metal junctions are efficient sources of pure spin currents in the gigahertz frequency range.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2041-1723
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nature communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24780927
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4768