Capacitance enhanced synchronization of pairs of spin-transfer oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2421-2423

  Zhou, Yan ^a   Bonetti, S ^a   Persson, J ^a   Åkerman, Johan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Preferred phase shift; Spin torque oscillator; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY FIELD DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMUM CAPACITANCES; PROCESS VARIATION; SPIN-TORQUE OSCILLATORS; SPIN-TRANSFER OSCILLATORS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 66549103953     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018595     Document Type: Article

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