Tunable Giant Anomalous Hall Angle in Perpendicular Multilayers by Interfacial Orbital Hybridization

A spintronic device based on the spin-dependent Hall effect has attracted great interest because of its great potential applications in the multivalue storage and logic gate, which is a promising candidate to break the bottleneck of the information industry in the big data period. It is a technological challenge to implant spintronic devices into semiconductor integrated circuits. The anomalous Hall angle (θ), defined as the deviation of the electron flow from the current direction, is the key parameter to evaluate the capacity of Hall device compatibility. However, the bottleneck for the device is low θ (less than 5%) at room temperature (RT), making it difficult to directly complement with the semiconductor circuit which limits its potential application. Here, we report a simple perpendicular multilayered structure with θ up to 5.1% at RT. Wide working temperature (250-350 K) across RT for our samples will accelerate the potential applications in spintronic memory. A giant Hall angle at RT originates from the enhanced side-jump scattering at the atomic-scale-modified interfacial structure. The high θ at RT together with wide working temperature is practically significant and may provide the way for further 3D spintronic devices based on the spin-dependent Hall effect with ultrahigh storage density and ultralow power consumption.