Materials and devices for reduced switching field toggle magnetic random access memory

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Worledge, D C ^a   Trouilloud, P L ^a   Gaidis, M C ^a   Lu, Y ^a   Abraham, D W ^a   Assefa, S ^a   Brown, S ^a   Galligan, E ^a   Kanakasabapathy, S ^a   Nowak, J ^a   O'Sullivan, E ^a   Robertazzi, R ^a   Wright, G ^a   Gallagher, W J ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM); STONER-WOHLFARTH MRAM; TOGGLE START FIELDS;

ERROR DETECTION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 33750034346     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2353272     Document Type: Article

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