Racetrack Memory: A storage class memory based on current controlled magnetic domain wall motion

Device Research Conference - Conference Digest, DRC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-6

  Parkin, Stuart ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; CMOS DEVICES; CONVENTIONAL MEMORIES; CURRENT PULSE; DATA BITS; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; LOW COSTS; MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE; MAGNETIC NANOWIRES; MULTIPLE DATA; ON CURRENTS; SINGLE-BIT; SOLID STATE MEMORIES; SPIN POLARIZED CURRENTS;

ELECTRIC COILS; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 76549097696     PISSN: 15483770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DRC.2009.5354890     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. S. S. P. Parkin, M. Hayashi, and L. Thomas, " Magnetic Domain-Wall Racetrack Memory, " Science, vol. 320, pp. 190-194, 2008.
2. S.S. P. Parkin, Scientific American, June 2009.
3. M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, Y. Bazahy, C. Rettner, R Moriya, X. Jiang, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Influence of current on field-driven domain wall motion in permalloy nanowires from time resolved measurements of anisotropic magnetoresistance, " Phys. Rev. Lett, vol. 96, p. 197207, 2006.
4. M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, C. Rettner, R Monya, X. Jiang, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Dependence of Current and Field Driven Depinnmg of Domain Walls on Their Structure and Chirality in Permalloy Nanowires, " Phys. Rev. Lett, vol. 97, p. 207205, 2006.
5. R. Monya, L. Thomas, M. Hayashi, Y. B. Bazaliy, C. Rettner, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Probing vortex-core dynamics using current-induced resonant excitation o f a trapped domain wall, " Nat. Phys., vol. 4, pp. 368-372, 2008.
6. L. Thomas, M. Hayashi, X. Jiang, R. Monya, C. Rettner, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Oscillatory dependence of current-driven magnetic domain wall motion on current pulse length, " Nature, vol. 443, pp.197-200, 2006.
7. L. Thomas, M. Hayashi, X. Jiang, R. Monya, C. Rettner, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Resonant Amplification of Magnetic Domain Wall Motion by a Train of Current Pulses, " Science, vol. 315, pp.1553-1556, 2007.
8. M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, C. Rettner, R . Monya, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Direct observation of the coherent precession of magnetic domain walls propagating along permalloy nanowires, " Nat. Phys., vol. 3, pp. 21-25, 2007.
9. M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, C. Rettner, R. Monya, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Real time observation of the field driven periodic transformation of domain walls in Permalloy nanowires at the Larmor frequency and its first harmonic, " Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 92, pp. 112510-3, 2008.
10. X. Jiang, M. Hayashi, R Moraiya, L Thomas, and S. S. P. Parkin, submitted, 2009.
11. M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, R Monya, C. Rettner, and S. S. P. Parkin, "Current-Controlled Magnetic Domain-Wall Nanowire Shift Register, " Science, vol. 320, pp. 209-211, 2008.