Giant interfacial spin Hall angle from Rashba-Edelstein effect revealed by the spin Hall Hanle process

Li, Jing; Comstock, Andrew H.; McConnell, Aeron; Li, Xin; Yun, Yu; Sun, Dali; Xu, Xiaoshan

doi:10.1103/physrevb.108.l241403

Title: Giant interfacial spin Hall angle from Rashba-Edelstein effect revealed by the spin Hall Hanle process

Journal Article · Mon Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Physical Review. B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.108.l241403· OSTI ID:2229449

^[1]; Comstock, Andrew H. ^[2]; McConnell, Aeron ^[2]; Li, Xin ^[1]; Yun, Yu ^[1];

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University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

The Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), which generates interfacial spin polarization and subsequent spin current, is a compelling spin-charge conversion mechanism for spintronic applications, since it’s not limited by the elemental spin-orbit couplings. In this work we demonstrate REE at Pt/ferroelectric interfaces by showing a positive correlation between polarization and effective spin Hall angle in the recently elucidated spin Hall Hanle effects (SHHE), in which a Larmor precession of spin polarization in a diffusion process from the interface manifest as magnetoresistance and Hall effect. We show that REE leads to a large enhancement of the effective spin Hall angle of ferroelectric interface Pt/h-LuFeO₃ compared with that of Pt/Al₂O₃, without obvious differences in the spin relaxation time. Modeling using SHHEs involving REE as an additional source of interfacial polarization suggests that REE can lead to an interfacial spin Hall angle (0.4 ± 0.1) in Pt/h-LuFeO₃ that is one order of magnitude larger than the bulk value of Pt. Our results demonstrate that a ferroelectric interface can produce large spin-charge conversion and that SHHEs are a sensitive tool for characterizing interfacial spin-transport properties.

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Research Organization:: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019173; SC0020992

OSTI ID:: 2229449

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Vol. 108, Issue 24; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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