Current-driven spin torque induced by the Rashba effect in a ferromagnetic metal layer

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-234

  Miron, Ioan Mihai ^a   Gaudin, Gilles ^b   Auffret, Stéphane ^b   Rodmacq, Bernard ^b   Schuhl, Alain ^b   Pizzini, Stefania ^c   Vogel, Jan ^c   Gambardella, Pietro ^a,d  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UMR 8191   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; TEMPERATURE;

FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; INVERSION SYMMETRY; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 77249108245     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2613     Document Type: Article

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