Charge-spin interconversion in nitrogen sputtered Pt via extrinsic spin Hall effect

J Phys Condens Matter. 2024 May 14;36(32). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ad42ee.

Abstract

We experimentally investigate the charge-spin interconversion by introducing a lighter impurity, namely nitrogen (N) into Pt by varying the nitrogen gas flow rate,Qfrom 0 to 20%, and studying the Onsager reciprocity of spin Hall effect (SHE) via complementary methods of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and spin-pumping inverse SHE measurements, respectively. We notice a reduction in the crystalline nature of Pt upon nitrogen incorporation. We observe the influence of extrinsic side-jump scattering induced SHE by measuring the spin Hall efficiency,θSHin a wide temperature range from 10 to 296 K. This work establishes the incorporation of N in Pt by using sputtering, to enhance the SHE via extrinsic scattering as well as to observe the reciprocal effects of charge-spin interconversion.

Keywords: charge–spin interconversion; extrinsic spin Hall effect; inverse spin Hall effect; side-jump scattering; spin torque ferromagnetic resonance.