The emergence of a large helical orbital texture due to the formation of the surface states at the metallic Co/Al interfaces originating from the orbital Edelstein effect and giving rise to a nonequilibrium orbital accumulation is revealed to produce large current-induced torques, providing an essential theoretical background for the experimental observations. Spin-orbit coupling is found […]

By performing transport simulations on carefully derived Wannier tight-binding models, Janus chromium-based transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are found to exhibit a spin-orbit torque (SOT) performance comparable to the most efficient two-dimensional materials, while additionally allowing for field-free perpendicular magnetization switching, due to their reduced in-plane symmetry.   The spin–orbit torque (SOT) mechanism represents an innovative […]

On Wednesday, November 13th 2024, we have the pleasure to welcome in SPINTEC Irinel Chiorescu from Florida State University. He will give us a seminar at 11:00 entitled : Engineering quantum coherence and control in diluted spin systems Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, auditorium 445 CEA Building 10.05 (presential access to the conference room at CEA in […]

On Friday September 13th 2023, Louise DESPLAT from SPINTEC will give us a seminar at 11:00 entitled : Atomistic exploration of topological states in ultrathin magnetic films and nanopillars Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, auditorium 445 CEA Building 10.05 (access to CEA requires an entry authorization. Request it before September 04th at admin.spintec@cea.fr) Video conference : https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98769867024?pwd=dXNnT3RMeThjYStybGVQSUN0TVdJdz09 […]

On Friday September 6th, at 13:00, Libor VOJÁČEK will defend his PhD thesis entitled : Multiscale modeling of spin-orbitronic phenomena at metal, oxide, and 2D material interfaces for spintronic devices Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, CEA Building 10.05, auditorium 445 (access needs authorization. Request it before August 20th to admin.spintec@cea.fr) video conference : https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/94186593072?pwd=IX1RzeKj0nu9V9Dk30cJkO49RdBa20.1 Meeting ID: 941 […]

On Thursday September 5, 2024 at 14:30 we have the pleasure to welcome Jakub Železný from Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague). He will give us a seminar entitled: Non-Relativistic Spin Currents and Torques in Antiferromagnets Place: IRIG/SPINTEC, CEA Building 10.05, auditorium 445 (access needs authorization request it before August 20th to admin.spintec@cea.fr) […]

We propose the concept of a core-shell composite structure coupled antiparallel via dipolar interaction, as the storage layer in perpendicular-shape-anisotropy magnetic random access memory (PSA MRAM). Benefits compared with a standard PSA MRAM include a reduced write time and the stray field. CoFeB core with a Co shell (height 8 nm; diameters 14 and 20 […]

Magnetic skyrmions are magnetic nanobubbles which are envisioned as bits of informations in our computers. A team from the Spintec laboratory in Grenoble has demonstrated that they can be moved by electric current at record speeds, up to 900 m/s, in antiferromagnetic stacks. These results hold promise for the use of skyrmions to store and […]

By using THz spintronic emission, we could study the spin-charge conversion mechanisms in 2D materials. High crystalline quality 2D materials are grown by molecular beam epitaxy on large area and CoFeB is deposited on top using soft UHV sputtering to obtain sharp interfaces. Such model system allows us to identify and quantify the spin-charge conversion […]

On Tuesday May 28th 2024, we have the pleasure to welcome in SPINTEC Valentin Alek Dediu from CNR-ISMN (Bologna). He will give us a seminar at 14:00 entitled : A Ferromagnetic Glass State observed in thin cobalt films hybridised with molecular layers: collapse of the standard magnetic domain structure Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, auditorium 445 CEA […]