Fast current-induced domain-wall motion controlled by the Rashba effect

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 419-423

  Miron, Ioan Mihai ^a,b   Moore, Thomas ^a,c   Szambolics, Helga ^a   Buda Prejbeanu, Liliana Daniela ^a   Auffret, Stéphane ^a   Rodmacq, Bernard ^a   Pizzini, Stefania ^c   Vogel, Jan ^c   Bonfim, Marlio ^d   Schuhl, Alain ^a,c   Gaudin, Gilles ^a  

^a UMR 8191   (France)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NANOWIRES; NICKEL ALLOYS;

BLOCH DOMAIN WALL; CURRENT-INDUCED DOMAIN WALL MOTIONS; DOMAIN WALL DISPLACEMENT; DOMAIN WALL VELOCITIES; INVERSION ASYMMETRY; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; SPIN POLARIZED CURRENTS; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 79957474907     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3020     Document Type: Article

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