A magnetic synapse: Multilevel spin-torque memristor with perpendicular anisotropy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lequeux, Steven ^a   Sampaio, Joao ^a,b   Cros, Vincent ^a   Yakushiji, Kay ^c   Fukushima, Akio ^c   Matsumoto, Rie ^c   Kubota, Hitoshi ^c   Yuasa, Shinji ^c   Grollier, Julie ^a  

^a UNITÉ MIXTE DE PHYSIQUE CNRS THALES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

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

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EID: 84983339927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31510     Document Type: Article

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