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most citedRoom temperature magnetization switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures by spin-orbit torques

378 citations · 943 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Energy-efficient spin Hall nano-oscillators using near-compensated CoGd ferrimagnets

Jiayu Lei, Raghav Sharma, Shishun Zhao +5

Conventional spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs) based on ferromagnets face practical limitations due to high threshold current densities and large external magnetic field requireme…

physics.app-ph2024★ 14 cited

Mimicking synaptic plasticity with wedged Pt/Co/Pt spin-orbit torque device

Shiwei Chen, Mishra Rahul, Huanjian Chen +2

We fabricated a wedge-shaped Pt/Co/Pt device with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and manifested that the Co magnetization can be solely switched by spin-orbit torque without any…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 31 cited

Emerging spintronics phenomena and applications

Rahul Mishra, Hyunsoo Yang

Development of future sensor, memory, and computing nanodevices based on novel physical concepts is one of the significant research endeavors in solid-state research. The field of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 32 cited

Microscopic Origin of Spin-Orbit Torque in Ferromagnetic Heterostructures: A First Principles Approach

Farzad Mahfouzi, Rahul Mishra, Po-Hao Chang +2

We present an {\it ab initio}-based theoretical framework which elucidates the origin of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in Normal-Metal(NM)/Ferromagnet(FM) heterostructures. The SOT i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 134 cited

Long spin coherence length and bulk-like spin-orbit torque in ferrimagnetic multilayers

Jiawei Yu, Do Bang, Rahul Mishra +14

Ferromagnetic spintronics has been a main focus as it offers non-volatile memory and logic applications through current-induced spin-transfer torques. Enabling wider applications o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 76 cited

Terahertz Emission from Compensated Magnetic Heterostructures

Mengji Chen, Rahul Mishra, Yang Wu +2

Terahertz emission spectroscopy (TES) has recently played an important role in unveiling the spin dynamics at a terahertz (THz) frequency range. So far, ferromagnetic (FM)/nonmagne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 1 cited

Oscillatory spin-orbit torque switching induced by field-like torques

Jong Min Lee, Jae Hyun Kwon, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy +7

Deterministic magnetization switching using spin-orbit torque (SOT) has recently emerged as an efficient means to electrically control the magnetic state of ultrathin magnets. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 378 cited

Room temperature magnetization switching in topological insulator-ferromagnet heterostructures by spin-orbit torques

Yi Wang, Dapeng Zhu, Yang Wu +9

Topological insulators (TIs) with spin momentum locked topological surface states (TSS) are expected to exhibit a giant spin-orbit torque (SOT) in the TI/ferromagnet systems. To da…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 277 cited

Anomalous current-induced spin torques in ferrimagnets near compensation

Rahul Mishra, Jiawei Yu, Xuepeng Qiu +3

While current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have been extensively studied in ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, ferrimagnets have been less studied. Here we report the presence…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Coherent Sub-Nanosecond Switching of Perpendicular Magnetization by the Field-like Spin-Orbit Torque without an External Magnetic Field

William Legrand, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy, Rahul Mishra +1

We theoretically study the influence of a predominant field-like spin-orbit torque on the magnetization switching of small devices with a uniform magnetization. We show that for a…