Spin current related magnetoresistance in epitaxial Pt/Co bilayers in the presence of spin Hall effect and Rashba-Edelstein effect

Ye Du; Saburo Takahashi; Junsaku Nitta

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.094419

Spin current related magnetoresistance in epitaxial Pt/Co bilayers in the presence of spin Hall effect and Rashba-Edelstein effect

Ye Du, Saburo Takahashi, Junsaku Nitta

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We analyze the experimentally obtained spin current related magnetoresistance (MR) in epitaxial Pt/Co bilayers by using a drift-diffusion model that incorporates both bulk spin Hall effect and interfacial Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE). The MR analysis yields, for the Pt/Co interface, a temperature-independent Rashba parameter in the order of 10-11eVm that agrees with theoretical calculations, along with an effective interfacial REE thickness of several angstroms, which is in overall consistency with our previous spin-orbit torque analysis. Our results suggest that both bulk and interface charge-spin current interconversions need to be taken into account for the spin current related MR analysis in highly conductive magnetic heterostructures such as the epitaxial Pt/Co bilayers.

Original language	English
Article number	094419
Journal	Physical Review B
Volume	103
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.094419
Publication status	Published - 2021 Mar 12
Externally published	Yes

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Condensed Matter Physics

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Spin current related magnetoresistance in epitaxial Pt/Co bilayers in the presence of spin Hall effect and Rashba-Edelstein effect

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