Effect of Rashba interaction at normal metal/insulator interface on spin-orbit torque of ferromagnet/normal metal/insulator trilayers

Authors
Park, Eun-SangMin, Byoung-ChulKoo, Hyun CheolKim, Kyoung-WhanLee, Kyung-Jin
Issue Date
2019-12
Publisher
ELSEVIER
Citation
CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS, v.19, no.12, pp.1362 - 1366
Abstract
Based on a spin drift-diffusion model, we theoretically investigate the spin-orbit torque in ferromagnet/normal metal/insulator trilayers with considering the Rashba interfacial spin-orbit coupling at the normal metal/insulator interface. We find that the spin-orbit torque shows the opposite normal-metal-thickness dependences for the bulk spin-orbit coupling effect in the normal metal layer and for the interfacial spin-orbit coupling effect at the normal metal/insulator interface, offering a way to disentangle these two spin-orbit coupling effects. Moreover, we show that the conventional interpretation based on the bulk spin-orbit coupling effect overestimates the spin Hall angle and underestimates the spin diffusion length of the normal metal layer, when the interfacial contribution is non-negligible. Our result, a concise analytic expression of the spin-orbit torque considering both bulk and interface spin-orbit coupling effects, will be useful to design and interpret experiments on spin-orbit torque experiments in ferromagnet/normal metal/insulator trilayers.
Keywords
CURRENT-DRIVEN DYNAMICS; MAGNETIZATION; Spin-orbit torque
ISSN
1567-1739
URI
https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/119281
DOI
10.1016/j.cap.2019.08.025
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