Nanowire spin torque oscillator driven by spin orbit torques

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Duan, Zheng ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Youngblood, Brian ^a   Lindner, Jürgen ^b   Demidov, Vladislav E ^c   Demokritov, Sergej O ^c,d   Krivorotov, Ilya N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF METAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; NANOWIRE;

FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLATION;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FILM; MAGNETISM; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; TORQUE;

EID: 84923360455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6616     Document Type: Article

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