Observation of magnon-mediated current drag in Pt/yttrium iron garnet/Pt(Ta) trilayers

Li, Junxue; Xu, Yadong; Aldosary, Mohammed; Tang, Chi; Lin, Zhisheng; Zhang, Shufeng; Lake, Roger; Shi, Jing

doi:10.1038/ncomms10858

Title: Observation of magnon-mediated current drag in Pt/yttrium iron garnet/Pt(Ta) trilayers

Journal Article · Wed Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10858· OSTI ID:1252900

Li, Junxue ^[1]; Xu, Yadong ^[1]; Aldosary, Mohammed ^[1]; Tang, Chi ^[1]; Lin, Zhisheng ^[1]; Zhang, Shufeng ^[2]; Lake, Roger ^[1]; Shi, Jing ^[1]

Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

Pure spin current, a flow of spin angular momentum without flow of any accompanying net charge, is generated in two common ways. One makes use of the spin Hall effect in normal metals (NM) with strong spin–orbit coupling, such as Pt or Ta. The other utilizes the collective motion of magnetic moments or spin waves with the quasi-particle excitations called magnons. A popular material for the latter is yttrium iron garnet, a magnetic insulator (MI). Here we demonstrate in NM/MI/NM trilayers that these two types of spin currents are interconvertible across the interfaces, predicated as the magnon-mediated current drag phenomenon. The transmitted signal scales linearly with the driving current without a threshold and follows the power-law Tⁿ with n ranging from 1.5 to 2.5. Lastly, our results indicate that the NM/MI/NM trilayer structure can serve as a scalable pure spin current valve device which is an essential ingredient in spintronics.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012670

OSTI ID:: 1252900

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

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