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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThermal Contribution in the Electrical Switching Experiments with Heavy Metal / Antiferromagnet Structures
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We examine the thermal origin of the detected saw-tooth shaped Hall resistance (Rxy) signals in the spin-orbit torque switching experiment for antiferromagnetic MnN. Compared with the results of the heavy metal / antiferromagnet bilayers (MnN/Ta), the qualitatively same saw-tooth shaped signals also appear in the samples with the heavy metal layer alone (either Ta or Pt) without MnN layer. In addition, The Rxy signal changes oppositely in the devices with Ta and Pt, due to the opposite temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) of the two materials. All those results are consistent with the localized Joule heating mechanism in devices with Hall crosses geometry. Moreover, by utilizing a structure with separated writing current paths and Hall cross area, the quadratic relationship between delta-Rxy and the writing currents amplitude is observed, which provides quantitative evidence of the thermal contribution. These results reveal the dominant thermal artifact in the widely used Hall crosses geometry for Neel vector probing, and also provide a strategy to semi-quantitatively evaluate the thermal effect, which can shed light on a more conclusive experiment design.
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