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Giant room temperature interface spin hall and inverse spin hall effects

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By decomposing the room temperature SHE and inverse SHE currents into bulk and interface terms, this work discovers a giant interface SHA that dominates the total inverse SHE current with potentially major consequences for applications.
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The spin Hall angle (SHA) is a measure of the efficiency with which a transverse spin current is generated from a charge current by the spin-orbit coupling and disorder in the spin Hall effect (SHE). In a study of the SHE for a Pt|Py (Py=Ni 80 Fe 20 ) bilayer using a first-principles scattering approach, we find a SHA that increases monotonically with temperature and is proportional to the resistivity for bulk Pt. By decomposing the room temperature SHE and inverse SHE currents into bulk and interface terms, we discover a giant interface SHA that dominates the total inverse SHE current with potentially major consequences for applications.

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Spin-torque switching with the giant spin hall effect of tantalum

TL;DR: In this paper, a giant spin Hall effect (SHE) in β-tantalum was shown to generate spin currents intense enough to induce spin-torque switching of ferromagnets at room temperature.
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Spin Hall Effect

TL;DR: In this paper, it is proposed that when a charge current circulates in a paramagnetic metal, a transverse spin imbalance will be generated, giving rise to a spin Hall voltage, in the absence of charge current and magnetic field.
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Spin Hall effects

TL;DR: In solid-state materials with strong relativistic spin-orbit coupling, charge currents generate transverse spin currents as discussed by the authors and the associated spin Hall and inverse spin Hall effects distinguish between charge and spin current where electron charge is a conserved quantity but its spin direction is not.
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Conversion of spin current into charge current at room temperature: Inverse spin-Hall effect

TL;DR: In this article, a pure spin current was injected into a Pt thin film using spin pumping, and it was observed to generate electromotive force transverse to the spin current, consistent with the spin-Hall effect.

Spin Hall Effect

TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that when a charge current circulates in a paramagnetic metal, a transverse spin imbalance will be generated, giving rise to a spin Hall voltage, in the absence of charge current and magnetic field.
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