Substantial reduction in the depinning field of vortex domain walls triggered by spin-transfer induced resonance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Nozaki, T ^a   Maekawa, H ^a   Mizuguchi, M ^a,d   Shiraishi, M ^a   Shinjo, T ^a   Suzuki, Y ^a   Maehara, H ^b   Kasai, S ^c   Ono, T ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Canon ANELVA Technix Corporation   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETIZATION; NANOWIRES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DEPINNING FIELD; MAGNETIC MEMORY; PERMALLOY; SPIN TRANSFER; VORTEX CORE;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 34548286526     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2772174     Document Type: Article

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