Excitations of incoherent spin-waves due to spin-transfer torque

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 877-881

  Lee, Kyung Jin ^a,b,c   Deac, Alina ^a,b   Redon, Olivier ^a,b   Nozières, Jean Pierre ^a   Dieny, Bernard ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; FREQUENCIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TORQUE;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; COHERENT SPIN-TORQUE MODEL (CSM); NANOMAGNETS; SPIN WAVES; SPIN-TRANSFER TORQUE (STT);

MAGNETIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TORQUE; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAGNETICS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; TORQUE;

EID: 10044225880     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1237     Document Type: Article

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