Stable magnetic droplet solitons in spin-transfer nanocontacts

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 992-996

  Macià, Ferran ^a,b   Backes, Dirk ^a   Kent, Andrew D ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEATION; SOLITONS; THIN FILMS;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT FLOW; FERROMAGNETIC THIN FILMS; HYSTERETIC RESPONSE; LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

DROPS;

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84926160122     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.255     Document Type: Article

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