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SUBMITTER: Wei D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015325 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wei Dahai D Obstbaum Martin M Ribow Mirko M Back Christian H CH Woltersdorf Georg G
Nature communications 20140430
In spin electronics, the spin degree of freedom is used to transmit and store information. To this end the ability to create pure spin currents--that is, without net charge transfer--is essential. When the magnetization vector in a ferromagnet-normal metal junction is excited, the spin pumping effect leads to the injection of pure spin currents into the normal metal. The polarization of this spin current is time-dependent and contains a very small d.c. component. Here we show that the large a.c. ...[more]