Spin-orbit torque opposing the Oersted torque in ultrathin Co/Pt bilayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Skinner, T D ^a   Wang, M ^b   Hindmarch, A T ^b,c   Rushforth, A W ^b   Irvine, A C ^a   Heiss, D ^a,c   Kurebayashi, H ^a,d,e   Ferguson, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM;

ANGLE DEPENDENCE; BI-LAYER; FERROMAGNETS; RASHBA SPIN; RECTIFICATION EFFECTS; SPIN ORBITS; ULTRA-THIN;

TORQUE;

EID: 84902541089     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4864399     Document Type: Article

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