Current-driven destabilization of both collinear configurations in asymmetric spin valves

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Gmitra, M ^a   Barnas J ^a,b  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; TORQUE;

SPIN DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SPIN TRANSFER; SPIN VALVES; STATIONARY PRECESSIONAL MODES;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

EID: 33646928915     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.207205     Document Type: Article

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