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IEEETRANSACTIONSONELECTRONDEVICES,VOL.63,NO.11,NOVEMBER20164499

All-Spin-OrbitSwitchingof

PerpendicularMagnetization

MohammadKazemi,StudentMember,IEEE,GrahamE.Rowlands,ShengjieShi,

RobertA.Buhrman,andEbyG.Friedman,Fellow,IEEE

Abstract—Deviceswithferromagneticlayerspossessingaper-namely,afield-liketorque,TFL=T0m×δ,andadamping-

FL

pendicularmagneticeasyaxisareofgreatinterestduetominia-liketorque,TDL=T0m×(δ×m).Here,T0andT0

DLDLFL

turizationcapabilityandthermalstability,retainingdeeplyscaledeachrepresentsacurrent-dependentproportionalityfactorand

magneticbitsoverlongperiodsoftime.Whilethetunneling

m(δ)isaunitvectorthatdenotesthedirectionofthe

magnetoresistanceeffecthassignificantlyenhancedelectrical

readingofmagneticbits,fastandenergyefficientwritingofmagnetization(thedirectiontraversetothecurrentflow).

magneticbitsremainsachallenge.Current-inducedspin-orbitSeveralstudieshavedemonstratedthatTDLissufficiently

torques(SOTs)havebeenwidelyconsideredduetosignificantstrongtoswitchthemagnetizationofaheterostruc