PERFECT ALLOYS for SPIN HALL CURRENT-INDUCED MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING

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Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gradhand, Martin ^a   Fedorov, Dmitry V ^b   Zahn, Peter ^c   Mertig, Ingrid ^d   Otani, Yoshichika ^e   Niimi, Yasuhiro ^e   Vila, Laurent ^f   Fert, Albert ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f RIKEN   (Japan)

^g CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^h UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

Author keywords

magnetization switching; Spin current; spin Hall effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874526588     PISSN: 20103247     EISSN: 20103255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010324712500105     Document Type: Article

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