Domain-wall depinning assisted by pure spin currents

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Ilgaz, D ^a   Nievendick, J ^a   Heyne, L ^a   Backes, D ^a,b   Rhensius, J ^a,b   Moore, T A ^a,d   Nino M A ^c   Locatelli, A ^c   Mentes T O ^c   V Schmidsfeld, A ^a   V Bieren, A ^a   Krzyk, S ^a   Heyderman, L J ^b   Klaui M ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL CURRENTS; DEPINNING; DEPINNING FIELDS; DOMAIN-WALL DEPINNING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; NONLOCAL SPIN VALVES; NONMAGNETICS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SPIN CURRENTS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 77955595665     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.076601     Document Type: Article

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