Current-induced spin-orbit torque switching of perpendicularly magnetized Hf|CoFeB|MgO and Hf|CoFeB|TaOx structures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2015, Pages

  Akyol, Mustafa ^a,b   Yu, Guoqiang ^a   Alzate, Juan G ^a   Upadhyaya, Pramey ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Wong, Kin L ^a   Ekicibil, Ahmet ^b   Khalili Amiri, Pedram ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SWITCHING;

CURRENT-DRIVEN; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; INVERSION SYMMETRY; MAGNETIC BIAS FIELDS; MAGNETIC SWITCHING; OUT-OF PLANE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIZATION; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84929484940     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4919108     Document Type: Article

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