Spin transfer switching of current-perpendicular-to-plane giant magnetoresistance with various Gd-Fe free-layer compositions

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (7) ◽  
pp. 07C911 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Aoshima ◽  
Y. Hashimoto ◽  
N. Funabashi ◽  
K. Machida ◽  
K. Kuga ◽  
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SPIN ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAOHSUAN CHEN ◽  
JUIHANG CHANG ◽  
CHINGRAY CHANG

Due to the demagnetization field of the free layer, an approximate theory was introduced to analyze the synchronization mechanism of coupled nano-oscillators. The necessary conditions of synchronization for a coupled spin-transfer-torque system are derived and dipolar interaction generates synchronization within an induced corrugated attractor. The theory of corrugated attractor also shows that the current feedback effect from Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) cannot synchronize the second type of spin-torque nano-oscillators. Our theory is consistent with the numerical results from the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation with a spin-transfer-torque.


Author(s):  
T. Kimura

This chapter discusses the spin-transfer effect, which is described as the transfer of the spin angular momentum between the conduction electrons and the magnetization of the ferromagnet that occurs due to the conservation of the spin angular momentum. L. Berger, who introduced the concept in 1984, considered the exchange interaction between the conduction electron and the localized magnetic moment, and predicted that a magnetic domain wall can be moved by flowing the spin current. The spin-transfer effect was brought into the limelight by the progress in microfabrication techniques and the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance effect in magnetic multilayers. Berger, at the same time, separately studied the spin-transfer torque in a system similar to Slonczewski’s magnetic multilayered system and predicted spontaneous magnetization precession.


2011 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 042503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohiro Taniguchi ◽  
Hiroshi Imamura ◽  
Tomoya M. Nakatani ◽  
Kazuhiro Hono

2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (10) ◽  
pp. 10C507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken-ichi Aoshima ◽  
Nobuhiko Funabashi ◽  
Kenji Machida ◽  
Yasuyoshi Miyamoto ◽  
Kiyoshi Kuga

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