Reducing the critical switching current in nanoscale spin valves

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3250-3252

  Manschot, Jan ^a,b   Brataas, Arne ^b   Bauer, Gerrit E W ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MICROWAVES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SWITCHING; TORQUE;

METALLIC INTERFACES; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; SPIN VALVES (SV); SPIN-FLIP DIFFUSION;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

EID: 8644232605     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1801169     Document Type: Article

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