Micromagnetic study of fieldlike spin torque effect on the magnetization switching in tunnel junctions with perpendicular anisotropy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Zongzhi ^a   Qiu, Yongcheng ^a   Jin, Q Y ^a   Liu, Yaowen ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC BEHAVIORS; BIAS DEPENDENCE; CURRENT DIRECTION; FREE LAYERS; LOCAL MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; MICROMAGNETIC STUDY; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PINNED LAYERS; SPIN TORQUE; SPIN-TORQUE EFFECT; SWITCHING TIME; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; TORQUE;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 78149432934     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3499755     Document Type: Article

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