Takahiro Moriyama

For a long time, there were no efficient ways of controlling antiferromagnets. Quite a strong magnetic field was required to manipulate the magnetic moments because of a high molecular field and a small magnetic susceptibility. It was also difficult to detect the orientation of the magnetic moments since the net magnetic moment is effectively zero. For these reasons, research on antiferromagnets has not been progressed as drastically as that on ferromagnets which are the main materials in modern

We prepare the high quality epitaxial MgO(001)[100]/Pt(001)[100]/NiO(001)[100]/FeNi/SiO2 films to investigate the spin transport in the NiO antiferromagnetic insulator. The ferromagnetic resonance measurements of the FeNi under a spin current injection from the Pt by the spin Hall effect revealed the change of the ferromagnetic resonance linewidth depending on the amount of the spin current injection. The results can be interpreted that there is an angular momentum transfer through the NiO. A hi

Microwave-assisted magnetization switching was investigated using Fe30Co70∕AlOx∕Ni80Fe20 magnetic tunnel junctions incorporated with a coplanar waveguide. Coercivity field of Ni80Fe20 layer was dramatically reduced in a small amplitude microwave. The authors eliminated the thermal effect in coercivity reduction by comparing two types of measurements which are with and without spin precession in the presence of microwave. It was found that the coercivity reduction depends on both frequency and po

We propose a system that is capable of detailed analysis of eye region images in terms of the position of the iris, degree of eyelid opening, and the shape, complexity, and texture of the eyelids. The system uses a generative eye region model that parameterizes the fine structure and motion of an eye. The structure parameters represent structural individuality of the eye, including the size and color of the iris, the width, boldness, and complexity of the eyelids, the width of the bulge below th

Antiferromagnets having negligible net magnetization but a topologically nontrivial spin structure are a good testbed for investigating the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In this Letter, we explore L12-ordered Mn3Ir thin films, which are one of the noncollinear antiferromagnets predicted to exhibit the intrinsic AHE due to their topologically nontrivial spin structure. The anomalous Hall conductivity as large as σAHE = 40 Ω−1 cm−1 was observed at R.T. This value can be translated to the

Previous research in automatic facial expression recognition has been limited to recognition of gross expression categories (e.g., joy or anger) in posed facial behavior under well-controlled conditions (e.g., frontal pose and minimal out-of-plane head motion). We developed a system that detects discrete and important facial actions, (e.g., eye blinking), in spontaneously occurring facial behavior with non-frontal pose, moderate out-of-plane head motion, and occlusion. The system recovers 3D mot

In this Letter, we show the demonstration of a sequential antiferromagnetic memory operation with a spin-orbit-torque write, by the spin Hall effect, and a resistive read in the CoGd synthetic antiferromagnetic bits, in which we reveal the distinct differences in the spin-orbit-torque and field-induced switching mechanisms of the antiferromagnetic moment, or the Néel vector. In addition to the comprehensive spin torque memory operation, our thorough investigations also highlight the high immunit

In antiferromagnetic spintronics where manipulation of the antiferromagnetic spins is a central technological challenge, it is important to understand the dynamic properties, especially their THz spin dynamics and the magnetic damping. Here, we investigate thoroughly the antiferromagnetic spin dynamics in NiO by broadband THz spectroscopy and find the remarkable difference in the damping constants $\ensuremath{\alpha}=5.0\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ens

A system that is capable of both recognizing and synthesising emotional content in speech is developed. First, the information that relates the physical features of emotional speech to the emotional content perceived by the listeners is estimated through linear statistical methods and it is applied to the system. The system realises emotion recognition and synthesis by means of a simple linear operation using the relation information. In the system, the pitch contour is expressed by the seven-pa

This paper describes a polarimetric feature extraction method from urban areas using the POLSAR (Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data. The scattering characteristic of urban areas is different from that of natural distributed areas. The main point of difference is polarimetric correlation coefficient, because urban areas do not satisfy property of azimuth symmetry, = 0. The decomposition technique based on azimuth symmetry can not be applied to urban areas. We propose a new model fit suit

We report the electrical detection of magnetization dynamics in an Al/AlOx/Ni80Fe20/Cu tunnel junction, where a Ni80Fe20 ferromagnetic layer is brought into precession under ferromagnetic resonance conditions. The dc voltage generated across the junction by the precessing ferromagnet is enhanced about an order of magnitude compared to the voltage signal observed when the contacts in this type of multilayered structure are Ohmic. We discuss the relation of this phenomenon to magnetic spin pumping

We report measurements of spin-torque-driven oscillations in magnetic multilayer devices containing two in-plane-oriented free layers designed to have significant coupling between them. They are driven to oscillate by spin-transfer torque from two perpendicularly oriented polarizers. For both measured devices and micromagnetic simulations, we find that the oscillations in the two free layers are phase locked, resulting in a frequency doubling and large output signals. The simulations suggest tha

Spin interaction in antiferromagnetic materials is of central interest in the recently emerging antiferromagnetic spintronics. In this Letter, we explore the spin current interaction in antiferromagnetic FeMn by the spin pumping effect. Exchange biased FeNi/FeMn films, in which the Néel vector can be presumably controlled via the exchange spring effect, are employed to investigate the damping enhancement depending on the relative orientation between the Néel vector and the polarization of the pu

We have fabricated MgO-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions with a Co/Ni switching layer to reduce the demagnetizing field via interface anisotropy. With a fcc-(111) oriented Co/Ni multilayer combined with an FeCoB insertion layer, the demagnetizing field is 2 kOe and the tunnel magnetoresistance can be as high as 106%. Room-temperature measurements of spin-torque switching are in good agreement with predictions for a reduced critical current associated with the small demagnetization for antiparall

Magnetic tunneling junctions (MTJs) with MgO tunnel barrier have been fabricated on both oriented and nonoriented buffer layers on Si(001) substrate by magnetron sputtering. FeCo∕MgO∕FeCo MTJs fabricated on oriented buffer layers show larger tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) value up to 84% without high temperature postannealing, whereas those MTJs on nonoriented buffer layers show 45% of TMR. The high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images reveal an excellent morphology and very coh