Time domain mapping of spin torque oscillator effective energy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rowlands, Graham E ^a   Katine, Jordan A ^b   Langer, Juergen ^c   Zhu, Jian ^a   Krivorotov, Ilya N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Singulus Technologies   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE ENERGY; GENERATION THRESHOLD; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; SPIN-TORQUE OSCILLATORS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIME-DOMAIN TECHNIQUE; VOLTAGE BIAS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84883204739     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.087206     Document Type: Article

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