Large and Robust Charge-to-Spin Conversion in Sputtered Conductive WTex with Disorder

Abstract

Topological materials with large spin-orbit coupling and immunity to disorder-induced symmetry breaking show great promise for efficiently converting charge to spin. Here, we report that long-range disordered sputtered WTex thin films exhibit local chemical and structural order as those of Weyl semimetal WTe2 and conduction behavior that is consistent with semi-metallic Weyl fermion. We find large charge-to-spin conversion properties and electrical conductivity in thermally annealed sputtered WTex films that are comparable with those in crystalline WTe2 flakes. Besides, the strength of unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance in annealed WTex/Mo/CoFeB heterostructure is 5 to 20 times larger than typical SOT layer/ferromagnet heterostructures reported at room temperature. We further demonstrate room temperature damping-like SOT-driven magnetization switching of in-plane magnetized CoFeB. These large charge-to-spin conversion properties that are robust in the presence of long-range disorder and thermal annealing pave the way for industrial application of a new class of sputtered semimetals.

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