Nonlinear behavior and mode coupling in spin-transfer nano-oscillators

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lebrun, Romain ^a,b,c   Locatelli, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Tsunegi, Sumito ^a,b,c   Grollier, Julie ^a,b,c   Cros, Vincent ^a,b,c   Abreu Araujo, Flavio ^a,b,c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^a,b,c   Yakushiji, Kay ^a,b,c   Fukushima, Akio ^a,b,c   Yuasa, Shinji ^a,b,c  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE CONFIGURATION; LINEWIDTH BROADENING; MICROWAVE PROPERTY; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; SPECTRAL COHERENCE; SPIN-TRANSFER NANO-OSCILLATORS; SPINTRONICS DEVICE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84937918825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.061001     Document Type: Article

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