Bulk Rashba-Type Spin Splitting in Non-Centrosymmetric Artificial Superlattices
- Authors
- Ham, Woo Seung; Ho, Thi Huynh; Shiota, Yoichi; Iino, Tatsuya; Ando, Fuyuki; Ikebuchi, Tetsuya; Kotani, Yoshinori; Nakamura, Tetsuya; Kan, Daisuke; Shimakawa, Yuichi; Moriyma, Takahiro; Im, Eunji; Lee, Nyun-Jong; Kim, Kyoung-Whan; Hong, Soon Cheol; Rhim, Sonny H. H.; Ono, Teruo; Kim, Sanghoon
- Issue Date
- 2023-04
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH Verlag
- Citation
- Advanced Science, v.10, no.12
- Abstract
- Spin current, converted from charge current via spin Hall or Rashba effects, can transfer its angular momentum to local moments in a ferromagnetic layer. In this regard, the high charge-to-spin conversion efficiency is required for magnetization manipulation for developing future memory or logic devices including magnetic random-access memory (M. Here, the bulk Rashba-type charge-to-spin conversion is demonstrated in an artificial superlattice without centrosymmetry. The charge-to-spin conversion in [Pt/Co/W] superlattice with sub-nm scale thickness shows strong W thickness dependence. When the W thickness becomes 0.6 nm, the observed field-like torque efficiency is about 0.6, which is an order larger than other metallic heterostructures. First-principles calculation suggests that such large field-like torque arises from bulk-type Rashba effect due to the vertically broken inversion symmetry inherent from W layers. The result implies that the spin splitting in a band of such an ABC-type artificial SL can be an additional degree of freedom for the large charge-to-spin conversion.
- Keywords
- ORBIT-TORQUE; CURRENT-DRIVEN; artificial superlattice; bulk Rashba-type spin splitting; charge-to-spin conversion; spin current
- ISSN
- 2198-3844
- URI
- https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/113881
- DOI
- 10.1002/advs.202206800
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- KIST Article > 2023
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