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TUT: Tutorials

TUT 3: Tutorial: Spin Hall Effect and Spin-Orbit Torques (MA)

TUT 3.1: Tutorial

Sunday, March 6, 2016, 16:00–16:45, H17

Introduction to Spin Hall Effect — •Christian Back — University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

We give here an overview of the spin Hall effect. Since its discovery over a decade ago the spin Hall effect has been one of the most researched areas of spintronics, with multiple unexpected new phenomena arising from its studies. Its origins, both intrinsic and extrinsic, have been studied both theoretically and experimentally, giving us now a rich picture of this phenomena which is present in many branches of spintronics. It is connected of course to the anomalous Hall effect, but in recent years it is understood to be linked closely with magnetization dynamics as well as inverse spin Galvanic effect. The fields of Topological Insulators also arose from the spin Hall effect in the limit if large spin-orbit coupling. We summarise the recent review written on the subject that covers most of the developments over the last decade.