Applied Spintronics Lab. @ KAIST
Selected Publications
2020-present
Nature Communications 15, 1814 (2024) "Field-free spin–orbit torque switching in ferromagnetic trilayers at sub-ns timescales".
Nature Materials 23, 768 (2024) "Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization by two-dimensional PtTe2/WTe2 van der Waals heterostructures with high spin Hall conductivity"
Nature Communications 14, 3365 (2023) "Enhanced spin Seebeck effect via oxygen manipulation"
Nature Communications 14, 3619 (2023) "Spin current driven by ultrafast magnetization of FeRh"
Nature 607, 452 (2022) "Strain solves switch hitch for an antiferromagnetic material". This is a News and Views for "Perpendicular full switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order by current" Nature 607, 474 (2022).
Physical Review Letters 129, 037202 (2022) "Spin swapping effect of band structure origin in centrosymmetric ferromagnets"
Nature Communications 13, 3783 (2022) "Voltage-driven gigahertz frequency tuning of spin Hall nano-oscillators"
Nature Electronics 5, 217 (2022) "Efficient spin-orbit torque in magnetic trilayers using all three polarizations of a spin current"
Nature Materials 21, 24 (2022) "Ferrimagnetic spintronics"; See also Editorial "New horizons in spintronics" Nature Materials 21, 1 (2022)
Nature Nanotechnology 16, 1337 (2021) "Superluminal-like magnon propagation in antiferromagnetic NiO at nanoscale distances"
Nature Communications 12, 7111 (2021) "Electric-field control of field-free spin-orbit torque switching via laterally modulated Rashba effect in Pt/Co/AlOx structures"
Nature Communications 12, 6710 (2021) "Orbital torque in magnetic bilayers"
Nature Communications 11, 1482 (2020) "Optical spin-orbit torque in heavy metal-ferromagnet heterostructures"
Physical Review Letters 124, 147204 (2020) "SU(3) topology of magnon-phonon hybridization in 2D antiferromagnets"
Scientific Reports 10, 1772 (2020) "Spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicular magnetization in ferromagnetic trilayers"
Nature Materials 19, 980 (2020) "Distinct handedness of spin wave across the compensation temperatures of ferrimagnets"; See also News & Views "Flipping handedness in ferrimagnets", Nature Materials 19, 929 (2020).
Physical Review Letters 125, 027205 (2020) "Enhanced magnon-photon coupling at the angular momentum compensation point of ferrimagnets"
Nature Communications 11, 3619 (2020) "Negative spin Hall magnetoresistance of normal metal/ferromagnet bilayers"
Physical Review Letters 125, 207205 (2020) "Generalized spin drift-diffusion formalism in the presence of spin-orbit interaction of ferromagnets"
Science 370, 1438 (2020) "Relativistic kinematics of a magnetic soliton"; See also Perspective "A new spin on special relativity", Science 370, 1413 (2020).
2015-2019
Nature Materials 18, 29 (2019) "Long spin coherence length and bulk-like spin-orbit torque in ferrimagnetic multilayers"
Nature Nanotechnology 14, 232 (2019) "Vanishing skyrmion Hall effect at the angular momentum compensation temperature of a ferrimagnet"
Physical Review Letters 122, 127203 (2019) "Low magnetic damping of ferrimagnetic GdFeCo alloys"
Physical Review Letters 122, 147202 (2019) "Unidirectional magnon-driven domain wall motion due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction"
Nature Materials 18, 685 (2019) "Bulk Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys"; See also News & Views "Bridging the gap", Nature Materials 18, 657 (2019).
Nature Electronics 2, 389 (2019) "Spin-transfer torques for domain wall motion in antiferromagnetically coupled ferrimagnets"; See also News & Views "A new twist for spin torques in antiferromagnets", Nature Electronics 2, 372 (2019).
Science 366, 1125 (2019) "Magnetization switching by magnon-mediated spin torque through an antiferromagnetic insulator"
Physical Review Letters 123, 237207 (2019) "Topological magnon-phonon hybrid excitations in two-dimensional ferromagnets with tunable Chern numbers"
Nature Materials 17, 509 (2018) "Spin currents and spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic trilayers"; See also News & Views "Tailor-made currents", Nature Materials 17, 478 (2018).
Nature Physics 14, 217 (2018) "Synthetic antiferromagnetic spintronics"
Nature Communications 9, 1648 (2018) "Correlation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction with Heisenberg exchange and orbital asphericity"
Nature Electronics 1, 398 (2018) "Complementary logic operation based on electric-field controlled spin-orbit torques"; See also News & Views "Complementary logic with a spin", Nature Electronics 1, 378 (2018).
Nano Letters 18, 7998 (2018) "Ferromagnet-free all electric spin Hall transistors"
Nature Materials 16, 1187 (2017) "Fast domain wall motion in the vicinity of the angular momentum compensation temperature of ferrimagnets"
Nature Communications 8, 1400 (2017) "Observation of transverse spin Nernst magnetoresistance induced by thermal spin current in ferromagnet/non-magnet bilayers"
Science Advances 3, e1603099 (2017) "Anomalous spin-orbit torque switching due to field-like torque-assisted domain wall reflection"
Applied Physics Letters 110, 122401 (2017) "Chiral magnetoresistance in Pt/Co/Pt zigzag wires"
Nature Nanotechnology 11, 878 (2016) "Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization through spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet/oxide structures"
Physical Review Letters 117, 087203 (2016) "Antiferromagnetic domain wall motion by spin-orbit torques"
Science Advances 2, e1501892 (2016) "Giant nonreciprocal emission of spin waves in Ta/Py bilayers"
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 333 (2015) "Spin-orbit torque engineering via oxygen manipulation"
Nature Physics 11, 576 (2015) "Thermal spin transfer torque driven by spin-dependent Seebeck effect in metallic spin-valve structures"
Before 2014
Nature Communications 5, 3042 (2014) "Quantifying interface and bulk contributions to spin-orbit torque in magnetic bilayers"
Nature Communications 5, 4334 (2014) "Spin Current generated by thermally driven ultrafast demagnetization"
Physics Reports 531, 89 (2013) "Self-consistent calculation of spin transport and magnetization dynamics"
Physical Review Letters 111, 216601 (2013) "Chirality from interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers"
Physical Review B 87, 174411 (2013) "Current induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling: Semiclassical modeling"
Physical Review B 88, 214417 (2013) "Current-induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling"
Physical Review Letters 108, 017203 (2012) "Time domain measurement of current-induced spin wave dynamics"
Physical Review Letters 108, 217202 (2012) "Prediction of giant spin motive force due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling"
Physical Review B 85, 18404(R) (2012) "Magnetization dynamics induced by in-plane currents in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling"
Applied Physics Letters 101, 062408 (2012) "Current-induced synchronized switching of magnetization"
Advanced Materials 23, 3272 (2011) "In situ observation of voltage-induced multilevel resistive switching in solid electrolyte memory"
Nature Physics 5, 898 (2009) "Bias-voltage dependence of perpendicular spin-transfer torque in asymmetric MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions"
Physical Review Letters 102, 147202 (2009) "Current-induced control of spin-wave attenuation"
Applied Physics Letters 92, 202508 (2008) "Current-induced domain wall motion in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy"
Applied Physics Letters 86, 022505 (2005) "Analytical investigation of spin transfer dynamics using a perpendicular-to-plane polarizer"
Nature Materials 3, 877 (2004) "Excitation of incoherent spin-waves due to spin-transfer torque"