Current-driven domain wall motion along high perpendicular anisotropy multilayers: The role of the Rashba field, the spin Hall effect, and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Martinez, Eduardo ^a   Emori, Satoru ^b   Beach, Geoffrey S D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-DRIVEN; CURRENT-INDUCED DOMAIN WALL MOTIONS; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; FERROMAGNETIC STRIPS; HIGH PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TRANSVERSAL FIELD;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; SPIN HALL EFFECT;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84882382725     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818723     Document Type: Article

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