AbstractsPhysics

Collective Intelligence for Smarter API Recommendations in Python

by Andrew Smith




Institution: University of California – Irvine
Department:
Year: 2016
Keywords: Physics; Nanoscience; Electromagnetics; spin Hall effect; spin torque oscillator; spintronics
Posted: 02/05/2017
Record ID: 2119522
Full text PDF: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9p51v4xf


Abstract

The field of spintronics deals with the use of the spin degree of freedom of the electron and the spin current that arises from it. There are many static and dynamic applications for spin current whether it is supplied by spin polarized electric current from a magnetic layer or from spin orbit torques. This dissertation will focus on the later cases where the spin Hall effect present in platinum supplies a spin torque on an adjacent permalloy layer creating a spin torque oscillator(STO). Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of STOs in the 0-dimensional case and its absence in the 2D case therefore the 1D case, a ferromagnetic nanowire, is tackled here. This will cover the first instance of a micrometer scale STO and will show the excited modes are the edge and bulk spin wave eigenmodes of the nanowire.