Spintronics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Single spin defects are identified in gallium nitride at room temperature, exhibiting a spin readout contrast of up to 30%.

Field-free switching of the perpendicular yttrium iron garnet magnetization with considerable efficiency is desired for device performance. Here, the authors demonstrate such an accomplishment with a collinear spin current in Py.

The authors demonstrate high-order terahertz nonlinear magnonics using two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy, revealing the emergence of seventh-order spin-wave mixing and sixth harmonic magnon generation within an antiferromagnetic orthoferrite.

Electric current pulses are used to move antiskyrmions, by coupling them with a helical track.

The techniques we typically employ to study spin-waves in magnetic materials, such as Brillouin Light Scattering, are two-dimensional. Spin waves, however, are manifestly three-dimensional. Here, Girardi et al. succeed in such three-dimensional imaging of spin waves in a synthetic antiferromagnet using Time-Resolved Soft X-ray Laminography.

Here the authors demonstrate a broadband nonlinear optical diode effect and its electric control in the magnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlSi. Their findings advance ongoing research to identify novel optical phenomena in topological materials.

Single spin defects are identified in gallium nitride at room temperature, exhibiting a spin readout contrast of up to 30%.

The antiferromagnetic material haematite, named for its blood-red colour, hosts swirling spin vortices termed merons. The rotation sense of such antiferromagnetic vortices has now been imaged in real space.

An all-electric switch of the persistent electron swirl in a quantum anomalous Hall state enables researchers to flip the electronic chirality of this quantum state.

For a long time, spin–orbit coupling in bismuthates has been considered to be negligible; however, giant charge-to-spin conversion has now been observed in Ba(Pb,Bi)O₃-based heterostructures. These observations provide a path toward investigating the interplay of hidden spin–orbit phenomena and superconductivity.

External-magnetic-field-free switching of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in magnetic layers is a prerequisite for the wide adoption of spintronic devices. This challenge could be met by the Weyl semimetal TaIrTe₄, which is now shown to generate an out-of-plane polarized spin current at room temperature.

In a non-collinear antiferromagnet, elementary spins rotate with opposite handedness with respect to the collective octupole magnetic moment when stirred by spin currents.