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Tohoku University

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fig. 1: Schematics of the antiferromagnet-ferromagnet bilayer system studied in this work. The current applied to the bilayer gives rise to a flow of electron spin in the perpendicular direction to the film plane. The magnetization of ferromagnet in the vicinity of interface is biased in the film plane direction due to an interaction with the antiferromagnet, which allows for the field-free switching.

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Shunsuke Fukami

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