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20 August 2020 Picosecond spin orbit torque switching
Jon Gorchon, Kaushalya Jhuria, Julius Hohlfeld, Akshay Pattabi, Elodie Martin, Aldo Ygnacio Arriola Córdova, Xinping Shi, Roberto Lo Conte, Sebastien Petit-Watelot, Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sanchez, Gregory Malinowski, Stéphane Mangin, Aristide Lemaître, Michel Hehn, Jeffrey Bokor, Richard B. Wilson
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Proceedings Volume 11470, Spintronics XIII; 114701I (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566199
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2020, Online Only
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Reducing energy dissipation while increasing speed in computation and memory is a long-standing challenge for spintronics research [1]. In the last 20 years, femtosecond lasers have emerged as a tool to control the magnetization in specific magnetic materials at the picosecond timescale [2]. However, the use of ultra-fast optics in integrated circuits and memories would require a major paradigm shift. An ultrafast electrical control of the magnetization [3] is far preferable for integrated systems. Here we demonstrate reliable and deterministic control of the out-of-plane magnetization of a 1 nm-thick Co layer with single 6 ps-wide electrical pulses that induce spin orbit torques on the magnetization. Due to the short duration of our pulses, we enter a counter-intuitive regime of switching where heat dissipation assists the reversal. These experiments prove that spintronic phenomena can be exploited on picosecond time-scales for full magnetic control.
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Jon Gorchon, Kaushalya Jhuria, Julius Hohlfeld, Akshay Pattabi, Elodie Martin, Aldo Ygnacio Arriola Córdova, Xinping Shi, Roberto Lo Conte, Sebastien Petit-Watelot, Juan-Carlos Rojas-Sanchez, Gregory Malinowski, Stéphane Mangin, Aristide Lemaître, Michel Hehn, Jeffrey Bokor, and Richard B. Wilson "Picosecond spin orbit torque switching", Proc. SPIE 11470, Spintronics XIII, 114701I (20 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566199
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena
Switching
Ultrafast phenomena
Magnetism
Spintronics
Control systems
Femtosecond phenomena
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