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most citedEfficient generation of out-of-plane polarized spin current in polycrystalline heavy metal devices with broken electric symmetries

18 citations · 19 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Initialization-free ultralow-power programmable spin-orbit torque logic devices enabled by chirally asymmetric switching

Qianbiao Liu, Lijun Zhu

Spin logic is of great interest for the development of high-performance, non-Von Neumann artificial intelligence chips. Of particular advantage is the programmable spin-orbit torqu…

cond-mat.mes-hall20261 cited

Negligible current-induced torque from the bulk and interface of Al

Taiyang Zhang, Lujun Zhu, Zhihao Yan +1

The light metal Al was predicted to have strong orbital Hall and Rashba effects from its bulk and interface, respectively. In this letter, we report experimental evidence that neit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Enhancing z spin generation in trivial spin Hall materials for scalable, energy-efficient, field-free, complete spin-orbit torque switching applications

Qianbiao Liu, Lijun Zhu

Despite the remarkable efforts in the past two decades, it has remained a major challenge to achieve switching of perpendicularly magnetized spin-orbit torque devices in a scalable…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Absence of orbital current torque in Ta/ferromagnet bilayers

Qianbiao Liu, Lijun Zhu

It has become a heated debate as to whether the orbital Hall effect of a material could generate a non-local orbital current and a non-zero spin-orbit torque on an adjacent magneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Linear Enhancement of Spin-Orbit Torques and Absence of Bulk Rashba-Type Spin Splitting in Perpendicularly Magnetized [Pt/Co/W]n Superlattices

Zhihao Yan, Zhengxiao Li, Lujun Zhu +2

The development of magnetic heterostructures with strong spin-orbit torques (SOTs), low impedance, strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), and good integration compatibilit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Physics Origin of Universal Unusual Magnetoresistance

Lijun Zhu, Qianbiao Liu, Xiangrong Wang

The discovery of the unusual magnetoresistance (UMR) during the rotation of magnetization in the plane perpendicular to the electric current, which has been typically attributed to…