Micromagnetic modeling of magnetization reversal in nano-scale point contact devices

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2938-2940

  Finocchio, Giovanni ^a   Ozatay, Ozhan ^b   Torres, Luis ^c   Carpentieri, Mario ^a   Consolo, Giancarlo ^a   Azzerboni, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nano point contacts; Nanosecond regime; Spin polarized current

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; MAGNETIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPIN POLARIZATION;

NANO POINT CONTACTS; NANOSECOND REGIME; SPIN POLARIZED CURRENT;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34249039055     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.892326     Document Type: Article

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