Efficient Synchronization of Dipolarly Coupled Vortex-Based Spin Transfer Nano-Oscillators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Locatelli, Nicolas ^a,b   Hamadeh, Abbass ^b   Abreu Araujo, Flavio ^c   Belanovsky, Anatoly D ^d,e   Skirdkov, Petr N ^d,e   Lebrun, Romain ^a   Naletov, Vladimir V ^a,b,f   Zvezdin, Konstantin A ^d,e,g   Muñoz, Manuel ^h   Grollier, Julie ^a   Klein, Olivier ^b,i   Cros, Vincent ^a   De Loubens, Grégoire ^b  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g Istituto PM Srl   (Italy)

^h INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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EID: 84948169746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17039     Document Type: Article

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