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TY - JOUR
T1 - Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy of Exchange-Biased Spintronic Heterostructures
T2 - Single- and Double-Pump Techniques
AU - Saito, Yuichi
AU - Kholid, Farhan N.
AU - Karashtin, Evgeny
AU - Pashenkin, Igor
AU - Mikhaylovskiy, Rostislav V.
PY - 2023/6/30
Y1 - 2023/6/30
N2 - We show that terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy is a method to probe the in-plane magnetic state in spintronic heterostructures with exchange bias between the constituent antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic layers. We demonstrate that the intense laser excitation can switch and reversibly reset the direction of the pinning axis arising from the exchange bias in technologically relevant tunnel magnetoresistance elements. By applying the double-pump THz emission spectroscopy, we reveal that this switching exhibits a threshold character in the pump intensity.
AB - We show that terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy is a method to probe the in-plane magnetic state in spintronic heterostructures with exchange bias between the constituent antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic layers. We demonstrate that the intense laser excitation can switch and reversibly reset the direction of the pinning axis arising from the exchange bias in technologically relevant tunnel magnetoresistance elements. By applying the double-pump THz emission spectroscopy, we reveal that this switching exhibits a threshold character in the pump intensity.
KW - General Physics and Astronomy
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064040
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.064040
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
JO - Physical Review Applied
JF - Physical Review Applied
SN - 2331-7019
IS - 6
M1 - 064040
ER -