Thermally activated switching of perpendicular magnet by spin-orbit spin torque

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Ki Seung ^a,b   Lee, Seo Won ^a   Min, Byoung Chul ^b   Lee, Kyung Jin ^a,b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BARRIERS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; MAGNETS; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMAL LOGGING; TORQUE;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CURRENT PULSE WIDTH; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; SPIN-TORQUE SWITCHING; SWITCHING CURRENTS; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84897387930     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866186     Document Type: Article

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