Mutually synchronized bottom-up multi-nanocontact spin-torque oscillators

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sani, S ^a,b   Persson, J ^b   Mohseni, S M ^a,b   Pogoryelov, Ye ^c   Muduli, P K ^c,d   Eklund, A ^a   Malm, G ^a   Kall M ^e   Dmitriev, A ^e   Akerman, J ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NanOsc AB Electrum 205   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYSTYRENE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TORQUE;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOCONTACT; NANOFABRICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NOISE; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; SPIN TORQUE OSCILLATOR; SURFACE CHARGE; TORQUE; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 84889253383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3731     Document Type: Article

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