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  • Title: Field-Free Spin-Orbit Torque Switching Enabled by the Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction.
    Author: He W, Wan C, Zheng C, Wang Y, Wang X, Ma T, Wang Y, Guo C, Luo X, Stebliy ME, Yu G, Liu Y, Ognev AV, Samardak AS, Han X.
    Journal: Nano Lett; 2022 Sep 14; 22(17):6857-6865. PubMed ID: 35849087.
    Abstract:
    Perpendicularly magnetized structures that are switchable using a spin current under field-free conditions can potentially be applied in spin-orbit torque magnetic random-access memory (SOT-MRAM). Several structures have been developed; however, new structures with a simple stack structure and MRAM compatibility are urgently needed. Herein, a typical structure in a perpendicular spin-transfer torque MRAM, the Pt/Co multilayer and its synthetic antiferromagnetic counterpart with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, was observed to possess an intrinsic interlayer chiral interaction between neighboring magnetic layers, namely, the interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Furthermore, using a current parallel to the eigenvector of the interlayer DMI, we switched the perpendicular magnetization of both structures without a magnetic field, owing to the additional symmetry breaking introduced by the interlayer DMI. This SOT switching scheme realized in the Pt/Co multilayer and its synthetic antiferromagnet structure may open a new avenue toward practical perpendicular SOT-MRAM and other SOT devices.
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