Title
Determination of spin Hall angle, spin mixing conductance, and spin diffusion length in CoFeB/Ir for spin-orbitronic devices
Date Issued
01 August 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fache T.
Badie L.
Mangin S.
Petit-Watelot S.
Universidad de Lorraine
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
Iridium is a very promising material for spintronic applications due to its interesting magnetic properties such as large Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida exchange coupling as well as its large spin-orbit coupling value. Ir is for instance used as a spacer layer for perpendicular synthetic antiferromagnetic or ferrimagnet systems. However, only a few studies of the spintronic parameters of this material have been reported. In this paper, we present inverse spin Hall effect-spin pumping ferromagnetic resonance measurements on CoFeB/Ir based bilayers to estimate the values of the effective spin Hall angle, the spin diffusion length within iridium, and the spin mixing conductance in the CoFeB/Ir bilayer. In order to have reliable results, we performed the same experiments on CoFeB/Pt bilayers, whose behavior is well known due to numerous reported studies. Our experimental results show that the spin diffusion length within iridium is 1.3 nm for resistivity of 250 nω m, the spin mixing conductance geff↑↓ of the CoFeB/Ir interface is 30nm-2, and the spin Hall angle of iridium has the same sign as the one of platinum and is evaluated at 26% of the one of platinum. The value of the spin Hall angle found is 7.7% for Pt and 2% for Ir. These relevant parameters shall be useful to consider Ir in new concepts and devices combining spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque.
Volume
102
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091538475
Source
Physical Review B
ISSN of the container
24699950
Source funding
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Sponsor(s)
T.F. thanks the ANRT and the company Vinci Technologies for funding his Ph.D., under CIFRE Convention No. 2016/1458. All authors acknowledge support from Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) under Contracts No. ANR-18-CE24-0008 (MISSION) and No. ANR-19-CE24-0016-01 (TOPTRONIC) from the French PIA project “Lorraine Université d'Excellence,” Reference No. ANR-15IDEX-04-LUE, from Region Grand Est, Metropole du Grand Nancy, Institut Carnot ICEEL, from the “FEDER-FSE Lorraine et Massif Vosges 2014–2020,” a European Union Program. Devices in the present study were patterned at MiNaLor clean-room platform which is partially supported by FEDER and Grand Est Region through the RaNGE project.
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