Energy Barriers in Magnetic Random Access Memory Elements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2839-2841

  Dittrich, Rok ^a   Schrefl, Thomas ^a   Forster, Hermann ^a   Suess, Dieter ^a   Scholz, Werner ^a   Fidler, Josef ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Energy barriers; Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) elements; Minimum energy path; Nudged elastic band method (NEB); Reversal modes; Saddle points; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SWITCHING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

MICROMAGNETICS;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 0141918647     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816239     Document Type: Article

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