High domain wall velocities via spin transfer torque using vertical current injection

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Metaxas, Peter J ^a,b   Sampaio, Joao ^a   Chanthbouala, André ^a   Matsumoto, Rie ^a,c   Anane, Abdelmadjid ^a   Fert, Albert ^a   Zvezdin, Konstantin A ^d,e,f   Yakushiji, Kay ^c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^c   Fukushima, Akio ^c   Yuasa, Shinji ^c   Nishimura, Kazumasa ^g   Nagamine, Yoshinori ^g   Maehara, Hiroki ^g   Tsunekawa, Koji ^g   Cros, Vincent ^a   Grollier, Julie ^a  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f Istituto PM Srl   (Italy)

^g Canon ANELVA Technix Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPIN LABELING; TORQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETICS; MAGNETS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPIN LABELS; TORQUE;

EID: 84878713669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01829     Document Type: Article

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