Spin Torque Generated by Valley Hall Effect in WSe2
arXiv:2206.09998 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.184412
Abstract
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for spintronics due to their robust spin-valley locked valence states, enabling efficient charge-to-spin conversion via valley Hall effect with non-equilibrium spins possessing long spin diffusion lengths of hundreds of nanometers. In this work, we show that the injection of a pure valley current, induced by valley Hall effect in a WSe2 monolayer, imparts a spin torque on the magnetization of an overlaid Fe or CoFe in a tunneling structure. The torque efficiency is found to be comparable to that in conventional perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions and can be further optimized with valley Hall angle in WSe2. The valley nature of the spin torque gives rise to out-of-plane damping-like torques in a current-in-plane configuration, vanishing charge transport perpendicular-to-the-plane as well as torque efficiency tunable through gating.
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