Modulation of individual and mutually synchronized nanocontact-based spin torque oscillators

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1575-1579

  Muduli, P K ^a,b   Pogoryelov, Ye ^b   Mancoff, F ^c   Akerman J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Everspin Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Modulation; nonlinear frequency and amplitude modulation; spin torque oscillators; synchronization of spin torque oscillators

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MODULATION; SYNCHRONIZATION; TORQUE;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; COMMUNICATION APPLICATION; CURRENT MODULATION; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION SIDE-BANDS; NANO CONTACTS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; SPIN-TORQUE OSCILLATORS;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 79957870790     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2096463     Document Type: Article

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