Ultrafast magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Garello, Kevin ^a   Avci, Can Onur ^a   Miron, Ioan Mihai ^b,c,d   Baumgartner, Manuel ^a   Ghosh, Abhijit ^a   Auffret, Stéphane ^b,c,d   Boulle, Olivier ^b,c,d   Gaudin, Gilles ^b,c,d   Gambardella, Pietro ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; MAGNETIZATION; SPIN HALL EFFECT;

CURRENT INJECTIONS; EXTERNAL FIELDS; INCUBATION TIME; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS; LATERAL DIMENSION; SINGLE DOMAINS; SWITCHING PROBABILITY; ULTRAFAST MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 84912124771     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4902443     Document Type: Article

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