Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Spin-neutral currents for spintronics

  • Ding-Fu Shao,
  • Shu-Hui Zhang,
  • Ming Li,
  • Chang-Beom Eom,
  • Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26915-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Spin-polarised electric currents have been studied extensively for use in spintronics, while their spin-neutral counterparts have been largely ignored. Here Shao et al show that such spin-neutral currents can be controlled by the Neel vector orientation of an antiferromagnet and detected using an antiferromagnetic tunnel junction.