Spin-torque-driven vortex dynamics in a spin-valve pillar with a perpendicular polarizer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Yaowen ^a   He, Huan ^a   Zhang, Zongzhi ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DEMAGNETIZATION; GYROSCOPES;

GILBERT DAMPING; PERPENDICULAR POLARIZER; THIELE EQUATION; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 37149045007     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2822436     Document Type: Article

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