拓扑绝缘体
磁电阻
材料科学
凝聚态物理
异质结
磁化
磁场
光电子学
物理
量子力学
作者
Tuo Fan,Nguyen Huynh Duy Khang,Takanori Shirokura,Ho Hoang Huy,Pham Nam Hai
摘要
Topological insulators (TIs) are promising for efficient spin current sources in spin–orbit torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM). However, TIs are usually deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on single crystalline III–V semiconductor or sapphire substrates, which are not suitable for realistic applications. Here, we studied SOT characteristics in sputtered BiSb topological insulator—Pt/Co/Pt—MgO heterostructures deposited on oxidized Si substrates, where Pt/Co/Pt trilayers have a large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy field of 4.5 kOe. We show that the BiSb layer has a large effective spin Hall angle of θSHeff = 2.4 and a high electrical conductivity of σ = 1.0 × 105 Ω−1 m−1. The magnetization can be switched by a small current density of 2.3 × 106 A cm−2 at a pulse width of 100 µs, which is 1 or 2 orders of magnitudes smaller than those in heavy metals. Our work demonstrates the high efficiency and robustness of BiSb as a spin current source in realistic SOT-MRAM.
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