Possible route to low current, high speed, dynamic switching in a perpendicular anisotropy CoFeB-MgO junction using Spin Hall Effect of Ta

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bhowmik, Debanjan ^a   You, Long ^a   Salahuddin, Sayeef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT AMPLITUDE; DYNAMIC SWITCHING; LOGIC APPLICATIONS; LOW CURRENTS; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; SPIN TORQUE; STEADY STATE; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS;

COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRON DEVICES; MAGNESIA; SPIN HALL EFFECT;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84876123819     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2012.6479132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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