Lee, D. Go, D. Park, H.-J. Jeong, W. Ko, H.-W. Yun, D. Jo, D. Lee, S. Go, G. Oh, J.H. Kim, K.-J. Park, B.-G. Min, B.-C. Koo, H.C. Lee, H.-W. Lee, O.J. Lee, K.-J. 2024-01-19T13:30:30Z 2024-01-19T13:30:30Z 2022-01-10 2021-11-18 2041-1723 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/116119 The orbital Hall effect describes the generation of the orbital current flowing in a perpendicular direction to an external electric field, analogous to the spin Hall effect. As the orbital current carries the angular momentum as the spin current does, injection of the orbital current into a ferromagnet can result in torque on the magnetization, which provides a way to detect the orbital Hall effect. With this motivation, we examine the current-induced spin-orbit torques in various ferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers by theory and experiment. Analysis of the magnetic torque reveals the presence of the contribution from the orbital Hall effect in the heavy metal, which competes with the contribution from the spin Hall effect. In particular, we find that the net torque in Ni/Ta bilayers is opposite in sign to the spin Hall theory prediction but instead consistent with the orbital Hall theory, which unambiguously confirms the orbital torque generated by the orbital Hall effect. Our finding opens a possibility of utilizing the orbital current for spintronic device applications, and it will invigorate researches on spin-orbit-coupled phenomena based on orbital engineering. ？ 2021, The Author(s). English Nature Research Orbital torque in magnetic bilayers Article 10.1038/s41467-021-26650-9 1 Nature Communications, v.12, no.1 Nature Communications 12 1 scie scopus 000720682300013 2-s2.0-85119445824 Multidisciplinary Sciences Science & Technology - Other Topics Article ROOM-TEMPERATURE SPIN-TORQUE MAGNETORESISTANCE orbital torque orbital Hall effect spin Hall effect spin orbit torque