Time-resolved observation of fast domain-walls driven by vertical spin currents in short tracks

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Sampaio, Joao ^a   Lequeux, Steven ^a   Metaxas, Peter J ^a,b   Chanthbouala, Andre ^a   Matsumoto, Rie ^c   Yakushiji, Kay ^c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^c   Fukushima, Akio ^c   Yuasa, Shinji ^c   Nishimura, Kazumasa ^d   Nagamine, Yoshinori ^d   Maehara, Hiroki ^d   Tsunekawa, Koji ^d   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 Canon ANELVA Corporation ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN PROCESS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; SHORT PROPAGATION; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; SPIN-POLARIZED CURRENTS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIME-RESOLVED;

MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 84890444078     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4848795     Document Type: Article

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