Current-induced macrospin versus spin-wave excitations in spin valves

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Brataas, Arne ^a   Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav ^b   Bauer, Gerrit E W ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33244474008     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.014408     Document Type: Article

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