Surface-State-Dominated Spin-Charge Current Conversion in Topological-Insulator-Ferromagnetic-Insulator Heterostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Hailong ^a   Kally, James ^a   Lee, Joon Sue ^a   Liu, Tao ^b   Chang, Houchen ^b   Hickey, Danielle Reifsnyder ^c   Mkhoyan, K Andre ^c   Wu, Mingzhong ^b   Richardella, Anthony ^a   Samarth, Nitin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; FERROMAGNETISM; FILM THICKNESS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SURFACE STATES;

CHARGE CURRENT; FERROMAGNET HETEROSTRUCTURES; FERROMAGNETIC INSULATOR; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE LINEWIDTH; INTERCONVERSIONS; INTERFACIAL SPINS; SPIN-PUMPING; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

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EID: 84982182325     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.076601     Document Type: Article

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