Giant Spin Pumping and Inverse Spin Hall Effect in the Presence of Surface and Bulk Spin-Orbit Coupling of Topological Insulator Bi2Se3

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 7126-7132

  Jamali, Mahdi ^a   Lee, Joon Sue ^b   Jeong, Jong Seok ^a   Mahfouzi, Farzad ^c   Lv, Yang ^a   Zhao, Zhengyang ^a   Nikolić, Branislav K ^d   Mkhoyan, K Andre ^a   Samarth, Nitin ^b   Wang, Jian Ping ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

ferromagnetic resonance; interface intermixing; interfacial spin orbit coupling; spin Hall effect; spin pumping; spintronics; TEM; Topological insulator ferromagnet heterostructures

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; FERROMAGNETISM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MAGNETS; PUMPS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE LINES; INTERFACE INTERMIXING; INTERFACIAL SPINS; MAGNETIZATION DYNAMICS; METALLIC FERROMAGNETS; SPIN-PUMPING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

SPIN HALL EFFECT;

BISMUTH; SELENIUM;

CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BISMUTH; SELENIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84944312729     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03274     Document Type: Article

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