Title: Spin transfer by nonuniform current injection into a nanomagnet
Abstract: We have used nanofabrication techniques to incorporate an ∼20–30nm diameter nanoaperture within a 150×250nm2 elliptical magnetic multilayer to enable the localized injection of spin-polarized currents into a thin film nanomagnet. This results in very low spin transfer currents being required for at least partial nanomagnet reversal as well as for onset of dynamic precession. Micromagnetic simulations using Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation with a spin-torque term indicate that reversal occurs via domain nucleation at the injection site followed by domain wall propagation away from the aperture, with the nanomagnet ending in one of several different states depending upon the current amplitude.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-05-15
Language: en
Type: article
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