SPICE macromodel of spin-torque-transfer-operated magnetic tunnel junctions

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1425-1430

  Harms, Jonathan D ^a   Ebrahimi, Farbod ^a   Yao, Xiaofeng ^b   Wang, Jian Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Macromodel; Magnetic random access memory (MRAM); Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ); SPICE; Spin torque transfer (STT)

Indexed keywords

MACRO MODEL; MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION (MTJ); SPIN TORQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SPICE; SPIN DYNAMICS; TORQUE;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 77952741984     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2047073     Document Type: Article

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