Magnetization switching without charge or spin currents

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Stohr J ^a,b   Siegmann, H C ^b   Kashuba, A ^c   Gamble, S J ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ATOMIC POSITIONS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; FERROMAGNET; IN PLANES; MAGNETIZATION DIRECTIONS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; OUT OF PLANES; PHOTON PULSE; PICOSECOND; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; SUBPICOSECOND; SWITCHING PROCESS;

MAGNETS;

EID: 60749132836     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3081421     Document Type: Article

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