Magnetization switching of an MgO/Co/Pt layer by in-plane current injection

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Onur Avci, Can ^a   Garello, Kevin ^a   Mihai Miron, Ioan ^b   Gaudin, Gilles ^b   Auffret, Stéphane ^b   Boulle, Olivier ^b   Gambardella, Pietro ^a,c,d  

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

^b UMR 8191   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SWITCHING CURRENT; CURRENT INJECTIONS; CURRENT PULSE WIDTH; DC LIMIT; IN-PLANE MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MGO; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRILAYER STRUCTURE; TRILAYERS;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84861814874     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4719677     Document Type: Article

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