Jing Zhou

TL;DR: An out-of-plane SOT in an HM/FM bilayer of L11-ordered CuPt/CoPt and field-free switching of the perpendicular magnetization of the CoPt layer is observed, demonstrating the intrinsic nature of the 3m torque, which strongly depends on the relative orientation of the current flow and the crystal symmetry.

TL;DR: It is shown that the magnetic structure of epitaxially grown L10-IrMn (a collinear AFM) is distinct from the widely presumed bulk one, and it is revealed that this magnetic structure induces a large isotropic bulk contribution and a comparable anisotropic interfacial contribution to the SOT efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, a spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching in a single ferromagnetic layer induced by a new type of inversion asymmetry, the composition gradient, was investigated.

TL;DR: A new method of utilizing a W wedge in the Pt/W/FM structure to induce a spin current gradient, which can result in an in-plane equivalent field along the wedge thickness gradient direction is proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate an anomalous spin-orbit torque induced by the broken magnetic symmetry in the antiferromagnet IrMn, which is consistent with both the symmetry analysis on the effects of a broken π-mirror symmetry and the theoretical predictions of the spin Hall effect and the Rashba-Edelstein effect.