Pulsed Current Switching of Submicrometer MRAM Cell

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2845-2847

  Bhattacharyya, Manoj ^a   Tran, Lung ^a   Nickel, Janice ^a   Anthony, Thomas ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

MRAM; Pulsed current; Switching probability and thermally assisted switching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; JITTER; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MICROMETERS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MICROMAGNETICS;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 0141987725     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816241     Document Type: Article

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