Spin-transfer-torque resonant switching and injection locking in the presence of a weak external microwave field for spin valves with perpendicular materials

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Carpentieri, Mario ^a   Finocchio, Giovanni ^b   Azzerboni, Bruno ^b   Torres, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

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EID: 77957593170     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.094434     Document Type: Article

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