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Electrical Detection of Spin Backflow from an Antiferromagnetic Insulator/Y_{3}Fe_{5}O_{12} Interface
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Abstract:
Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) has been observed in Pt/NiO/Y_{3}Fe_{5}O_{12} (YIG) heterostructures with characteristics very different from those in Pt/YIG. This phenomenon indicates that a spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in Pt transmits through the insulating NiO and is reflected from the NiO/YIG interface. The SMR in Pt/NiO/YIG shows a strong temperature dependence dominated by effective spin conductance, due to antiferromagnetic magnons and spin fluctuation. Inverted SMR has been observed below a temperature which increases with the NiO thickness, suggesting a spin-flip reflection from the antiferromagnetic NiO exchange coupled with the YIG.
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