Pulse voltage-induced dynamic magnetization switching in magnetic tunneling junctions with high resistance-area product

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Shiota, Yoichi ^a,b   Miwa, Shinji ^a,b   Nozaki, Takayuki ^b,c   Bonell, Frédéric ^a,b   Mizuochi, Norikazu ^a,b   Shinjo, Teruya ^a   Kubota, Hitoshi ^b,c   Yuasa, Shinji ^b,c   Suzuki, Yoshishige ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISTABLE SWITCHING; DYNAMIC MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC TUNNELING JUNCTIONS; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIORS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; RESISTANCE-AREA PRODUCTS; SPINTRONICS DEVICE; SWITCHING PROBABILITY; VOLTAGE PULSE; WRITING PROCESS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIZATION;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84866022604     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4751035     Document Type: Article

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