Spin torque nano-oscillators with a perpendicular spin polarizer

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/28/3/037503

Abstract We present an overview in the understanding of spin-transfer torque (STT) induced magnetization dynamics in spin-torque nano-oscillator (STNO) devices. The STNO contains an in-plane (IP) magnetized free layer and an out-of-plane (OP) magnetized spin polarizing layer. After a brief introduction, we first use mesoscopic micromagnetic simulations, which are based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation including the STT effect, to specify how a spin-torque term may tune the magnetization precession orbits of the free layer, showing that the oscillator frequency is proportional to the current density and the z-component of the free layer magnetization. Next, we propose a pendulum-like model within the macrospin approximation to describe the dynamic properties in such type of STNOs. After that, we further show the procession dynamics of the STNOs excited by IP and OP dual spin-polarizers. Both the numerical simulations and analytical theory indicate that the precession frequency is linearly proportional to the spin-torque of the OP polarizer only and is irrelevant to the spin-torque of the IP polarizer. Finally, a promising approach of coordinate transformation from the laboratory frame to the rotation frame is introduced, by which the nonstationary OP magnetization precession process is therefore transformed into the stationary process in the rotation frame. Through this method, a promising digital frequency shift-key modulation technique is presented, in which the magnetization precession can be well controlled at a given orbit as well as its precession frequency can be tuned with the co-action of spin polarized current and magnetic field (or electric field) pulses.

Keywords: spin torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) spin-transfer torque effect magnetic simulation

Received: 08 January 2019
Revised: 25 January 2019
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PACS:	75.78.Cd	(Micromagnetic simulations ?)
	85.70.Ay	(Magnetic device characterization, design, and modeling)
	75.30.Ds	(Spin waves)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB921501) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774260, 51671057, and 11874120).

Corresponding Authors: Yaowen Liu
E-mail: yaowen@tongji.edu.cn

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Cuixiu Zheng(郑翠秀), Hao-Hsau Chen(陈浩轩), Xiangli Zhang(张祥丽), Zongzhi Zhang(张宗芝), Yaowen Liu(刘要稳) Spin torque nano-oscillators with a perpendicular spin polarizer 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 037503

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