Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Nanoscale interface confinement of ultrafast spin transfer torque driving non-uniform spin dynamics

  • Ilya Razdolski,
  • Alexandr Alekhin,
  • Nikita Ilin,
  • Jan P. Meyburg,
  • Vladimir Roddatis,
  • Detlef Diesing,
  • Uwe Bovensiepen,
  • Alexey Melnikov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

Read online

Fundamental understanding of ultrafast spin dynamics is crucial for spintronics applications. Here the authors demonstrate an ultrafast technique to explore the inhomogeneous THz spin dynamics in Fe/Au/Fe multilayers triggered by spin transfer torque.