Temperature dependence of spin transfer switching in nanosecond regime

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2685-2687

  Kawabata, Kiyoshi ^c   Panchula, Alex ^b   Wang, Shengyuan ^b   Huai, Yiming ^b  

^a Maxtor Corporation   (United States)

^b Grandis Inc   (United States)

^c RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic memories; modeling; spin transfer; thin films

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048345     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878817     Document Type: Article

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