Negative spin Hall magnetoresistance of normal metal/ferromagnet bilayers

Min-Gu Kang, Gyungchoon Go, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Jong-Guk Choi, Byong-Guk Park () and Kyung-Jin Lee ()
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Min-Gu Kang: KAIST
Gyungchoon Go: Korea University
Kyoung-Whan Kim: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Jong-Guk Choi: KAIST
Byong-Guk Park: KAIST
Kyung-Jin Lee: Korea University

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Interconversion between charge and spin through spin-orbit coupling lies at the heart of condensed-matter physics. In normal metal/ferromagnet bilayers, a concerted action of the interconversions, the spin Hall effect and its inverse effect of normal metals, results in spin Hall magnetoresistance, whose sign is always positive regardless of the sign of spin Hall conductivity of normal metals. Here we report that the spin Hall magnetoresistance of Ta/NiFe bilayers is negative, necessitating an additional interconversion process. Our theory shows that the interconversion owing to interfacial spin-orbit coupling at normal metal/ferromagnet interfaces can give rise to negative spin Hall magnetoresistance. Given that recent studies found the conversion from charge currents to spin currents at normal metal/ferromagnet interfaces, our work provides a missing proof of its reciprocal spin-current-to-charge-current conversion at same interface. Our result suggests that interfacial spin-orbit coupling effect can dominate over bulk effects, thereby demanding interface engineering for advanced spintronics devices.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17463-3

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