Theory of spin torque assisted thermal switching of single free layer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3803-3806

  Taniguchi, Tomohiro ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Fokker Planck equation; Spintronics; Theory; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

FOKKER-PLANCK APPROACH; FREE LAYERS; MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; RATE EQUATIONS; RETENTION TIME; SPIN TORQUE; SWITCHING CURRENTS; SWITCHING RATES; THEORETICAL FORMULA; THEORY; THERMAL SWITCHING;

MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84867794996     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2196979     Document Type: Article

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