Evaluation of scalability for current-driven domain wall motion in a Co/Ni multilayer strip for memory applications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3776-3779

  Suzuki, Tetsuhiro ^a   Fukami, Shunsuke ^a   Nagahara, Kiyokazu ^a   Ohshima, Norikazu ^a   Ishiwata, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Index Terms Magnetic domain; Magnetic random access memory (MRAM); Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA); Spintronics

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MRAM DEVICES; SPINTRONICS; STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CURRENT-DRIVEN; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; INDEX TERMS; MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; MEMORY APPLICATIONS; MULTILAYER STRIP; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; STEP BOUNDARIES;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 70350580809     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2023069     Document Type: Article

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