Effect of electrical current pulses on domain walls in Pt/Co/Pt nanotracks with out-of-plane anisotropy: Spin transfer torque versus Joule heating

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Cormier, M ^a,b,d   Mougin, A ^a   Ferre J ^a   Thiaville, A ^a   Charpentier, N ^a   Piechon F ^a   Weil, R ^a   Baltz, V ^c   Rodmacq, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b ALTIS Semiconductor   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77954798852     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.024407     Document Type: Article

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