Highly sensitive nanoscale spin-torque diode

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-56

  Miwa, S ^a   Ishibashi, S ^a,b   Tomita, H ^a   Nozaki, T ^a,b   Tamura, E ^a   Ando, K ^a   Mizuochi, N ^a   Saruya, T ^a,c   Kubota, H ^b   Yakushiji, K ^b   Taniguchi, T ^b   Imamura, H ^b   Fukushima, A ^b   Yuasa, S ^b   Suzuki, Y ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Magnetic Thin Film Development Division Process Development Center General Business Headquarters   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; QUANTUM DEVICE; RADIO FREQUENCIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN TORQUE; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS;

NANOMAGNETICS;

EID: 84890560964     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3778     Document Type: Article

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