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most citedSymmetry and magnitude of spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures

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cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 8 cited

Magnetoresistive detection of perpendicular switching in a magnetic insulator

Silvia Damerio, Achintya Sunil, M. Mehraeen +2

Spintronics offers promising routes for efficient memory, logic, and computing technologies. The central challenge in spintronics is electrically manipulating and detecting magneti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 74 cited

Chiral Coupling between Magnetic Layers with Orthogonal Magnetization

Can Onur Avci, Charles-Henri Lambert, Giacomo Sala +1

We report on the occurrence of strong interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) between an in-plane magnetized Co layer and a perpendicularly magnetized TbFe layer through…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 19 cited

Spin-orbit torques and magnetotransport properties of -Sn and -Sn heterostructures

Federico Binda, Can Onur Avci, Santos Francisco Alvarado +3

Topological insulators have emerged as an important material class for efficient spin-charge interconversion. Most topological insulators considered to date are binary or ternary c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 10 cited

A two-terminal spin valve device controlled by spin-orbit torques with enhanced giant magnetoresistance

Can Onur Avci, Charles-Henri Lambert, Giacomo Sala +1

We report on the combination of current-induced spin-orbit torques and giant magnetoresistance in a single device to achieve all-electrical write and read out of the magnetization.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 7 cited

Asymmetric depinning of chiral domain walls in ferromagnetic trilayers

Mark C. H. de Jong, Can Onur Avci, Aleš Hrabec +1

We show that the coupling between two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer can be used to control the depinning of domain walls and induce unidirectional domain w…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 45 cited

Effects of transition-metal spacers on the spin-orbit torques, spin Hall magnetoresistance, and magnetic anisotropy of Pt/Co bilayers

Can Onur Avci, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Pietro Gambardella

We studied the effect of inserting 0.5 nm-thick spacer layers (Ti, V, Cr, Mo, W) at the Pt/Co interface on the spin-orbit torques, Hall effect, magnetoresistance, saturation magnet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 124 cited

Origins of the unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance in metallic bilayers

Can Onur Avci, Johannes Mendil, Geoffrey S. D. Beach +1

Recent studies evidence the emergence of asymmetric electron transport in layered conductors owing to the interplay between electrical conductivity, magnetization, and the spin Hal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 6 cited

Co-sputtered PtMnSb thin films and PtMnSb/Pt bilayers for spin-orbit torque investigations

Jan Krieft, Johannes Mendil, Myriam H. Aguirre +7

The manipulation of the magnetization by spin-orbit torques (SOTs) has recently been extensively studied due to its potential for efficiently writing information in magnetic memori…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 92 cited

Magnetoresistance of heavy and light metal/ferromagnet bilayers

Can Onur Avci, Kevin Garello, Johannes Mendil +6

We studied the magnetoresistance of normal metal (NM)/ferromagnet (FM) bilayers in the linear and nonlinear (current-dependent) regimes and compared it with the amplitude of the sp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 447 cited

Unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance in ferromagnet/normal metal bilayers

Can Onur Avci, Kevin Garello, Abhijit Ghosh +3

Magnetoresistive effects are usually invariant upon inversion of the magnetization direction. In noncentrosymmetric conductors, however, nonlinear resistive terms can give rise to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 477 cited

Interplay of spin-orbit torque and thermoelectric effects in ferromagnet/normal metal bilayers

Can Onur Avci, Kevin Garello, Mihai Gabureac +4

We present harmonic transverse voltage measurements of current-induced thermoelectric and spin-orbit torque (SOT) effects in ferromagnet/normal metal bilayers, in which thermal gra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 223 cited

Fieldlike and antidamping spin-orbit torques in as-grown and annealed Ta/CoFeB/MgO layers

Can Onur Avci, Kevin Garello, Corneliu Nistor +12

We present a comprehensive study of the current-induced spin-orbit torques in perpendicularly magnetized Ta/CoFeB/MgO layers. The samples were annealed in steps up to 300 degrees C…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 515 cited

Ultrafast magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques

Kevin Garello, Can Onur Avci, Ioan Mihai Miron +6

Spin-orbit torques induced by spin Hall and interfacial effects in heavy metal/ferromagnetic bilayers allow for a switching geometry based on in-plane current injection. Using this…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 1.2k cited

Symmetry and magnitude of spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures

Kevin Garello, Ioan Mihai Miron, Can Onur Avci +7

Current-induced spin torques are of great interest to manipulate the orientation of nanomagnets without applying external magnetic fields. They find direct application in non-volat…