Spin-torque building blocks

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-20

  Locatelli, N ^a,b   Cros, V ^a,b   Grollier, J ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOELECTRONICS;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION MEDIUM; MAGNETIC NANODEVICES; MAGNETO-RESISTIVE EFFECT; SPIN-TORQUE EFFECT; SPINTRONIC DEVICE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84890462788     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3823     Document Type: Article

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