Current-induced spin-orbit torques

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1948, 2011, Pages 3175-3197

  Gambardella, Pietro ^a,b   Miron, Ioan Mihai ^a  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dresselhaus effect; Rashba effect; Spin torque; Spin orbit coupling; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

COMBINED ACTIONS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; CURRENT INJECTIONS; DRESSELHAUS EFFECT; INVERSION SYMMETRY; MATERIAL ENGINEERING; NANOMAGNETS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RASHBA EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SYSTEMS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN SYSTEMS; SPIN TORQUE; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

TORQUE;

EID: 80051715879     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0336     Document Type: Review

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