Nano Letters, volume 22, issue 17, pages 6857-6865

Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Switching Enabled by the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction

HE WENQING ^{1, 2}

WAN CAIHUA ^{2, 3}

Zheng Cuixiu ⁴

Wang Yizhan ²

Wang Xiao ²

Ma T. Y. ²

Wang Yuqiang ²

Guo Chenyang ²

Luo Xuming ²

Stebliy Maksim E. ⁵

Yu Guoqiang ^{2, 3}

Yaowen Liu ⁴

Ognev Alexey V ⁵

Samardak Alexander S. ⁵

Han X. F. ^{1, 2, 3}

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Center of materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China |

Songshan lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China |

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School of physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China |

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Laboratory of Spin-Orbitronics, Institute of High Technologies and Advanced Materials, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok 690922, Russia |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2022-07-18

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Journal: Nano Letters

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ISSN: 15306984, 15306992

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04786

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Abstract

Perpendicularly magnetized structures that are switchable using a spin current under field-free conditions can potentially be applied in spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM). Several structures have been developed; however, new structures with a simple stack structure and MRAM compatibility are urgently needed. Herein, a typical structure in a perpendicular spin-transfer torque MRAM, the Pt/Co multilayer and its synthetic antiferromagnetic counterpart with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, was observed to possess an intrinsic interlayer chiral interaction between neighboring magnetic layers, namely, the interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Furthermore, using a current parallel to the eigenvector of the interlayer DMI, we switched the perpendicular magnetization of both structures without a magnetic field, owing to the additional symmetry breaking introduced by the interlayer DMI. This SOT switching scheme realized in the Pt/Co multilayer and its synthetic antiferromagnet structure may open a new avenue toward practical perpendicular SOT-MRAM and other SOT devices.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04786

UR - https://doi.org/10.1021%2Facs.nanolett.1c04786

TI - Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Switching Enabled by the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction

T2 - Nano Letters

AU - HE, WENQING

AU - Zheng, Cuixiu

AU - Wang, Yizhan

AU - Wang, Yuqiang

AU - Guo, Chenyang

AU - Luo, Xuming

AU - Stebliy, Maksim E.

AU - Yaowen, Liu

AU - Ognev, Alexey V

AU - WAN, CAIHUA

AU - Ma, T. Y.

AU - Yu, Guoqiang

AU - Samardak, Alexander S.

AU - Han, X. F.

AU - Wang, Xiao

PY - 2022

DA - 2022/07/18 00:00:00

PB - American Chemical Society (ACS)

SP - 6857-6865

IS - 17

VL - 22

SN - 1530-6984

SN - 1530-6992

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@article{2022_HE,

author = {WENQING HE and Cuixiu Zheng and Yizhan Wang and Yuqiang Wang and Chenyang Guo and Xuming Luo and Maksim E. Stebliy and Liu Yaowen and Alexey V Ognev and CAIHUA WAN and T. Y. Ma and Guoqiang Yu and Alexander S. Samardak and X. F. Han and Xiao Wang},

title = {Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Switching Enabled by the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction},

journal = {Nano Letters},

year = {2022},

volume = {22},

publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},

month = {jul},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1021%2Facs.nanolett.1c04786},

number = {17},

pages = {6857--6865},

doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04786}

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HE, WENQING, et al. “Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Switching Enabled by the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction.” Nano Letters, vol. 22, no. 17, Jul. 2022, pp. 6857-6865. https://doi.org/10.1021%2Facs.nanolett.1c04786.

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Laboratory of Thin-film Technologies (Spin-Orbitronics Laboratory)

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