Compact Modeling of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction Based on Spin Orbit Torque

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Jabeur, Kotb ^a   Pendina, Gregory Di ^a   Prenat, Guillaume ^a   Buda Prejbeanu, Liliana Daniela ^a   Dieny, Bernard ^a  

^a UMR 8191   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ); modeling; MRAM; spin orbit torque (SOT); spintronics; Verilog A

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MODELS; MRAM DEVICES; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; TORQUE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

CMOS COMPATIBILITY; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MRAM; OPTIMIZED SIMULATION; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; VERILOG-A;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 84921896727     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2305695     Document Type: Article

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