Current-driven magnetic excitations in permalloy-based multilayer nanopillars

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Urazhdin, S ^a   Birge, Norman O ^a   Pratt, W P ^a   Bass, J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL ALLOYS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SWITCHING; TEMPERATURE;

CURRENT-DRIVEN MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; PERMALLOY-BASED MULTILAYER NANOPILLARS; THERMAL ACTIVATION;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 0242425664     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.146803     Document Type: Article

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