High-power coherent microwave emission from magnetic tunnel junction nano-oscillators with perpendicular anisotropy

Z Zeng, PK Amiri, IN Krivorotov, H Zhao, G Finocchio… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The excitation of the steady-state precessions of magnetization opens a new way for
nanoscale microwave oscillators by exploiting the transfer of spin angular momentum from a …

Commensurability and chaos in magnetic vortex oscillations

S Petit-Watelot, JV Kim, A Ruotolo, RM Otxoa… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Magnetic vortex dynamics in thin films is characterized by gyrotropic motion, the sense of
gyration depending on the vortex core polarity, which reverses when a critical velocity is …

Phase locking dynamics of dipolarly coupled vortex-based spin transfer oscillators

AD Belanovsky, N Locatelli, PN Skirdkov, FA Araujo… - Physical Review B, 2012 - APS
Phase locking dynamics of dipolarly coupled vortices excited by spin-polarized current in
two identical nanopillars is studied as a function of the interpillar distance L. Numerical study …

Field dependence of spin-transfer-induced vortex dynamics in the nonlinear regime

A Dussaux, AV Khvalkovskiy, P Bortolotti, J Grollier… - Physical Review B, 2012 - APS
We derive an analytical model to describe the nonlinear vortex dynamics driven by spin-
transfer torque in nanopillar systems. We consider the nonlinearity arising from the …

Spin-torque oscillators

JV Kim - Solid State Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
Spin-transfer torques in magnetic heterostructures give rise to a number of dynamical
processes that are not accessible with magnetic fields alone. A prominent example involves …

[HTML][HTML] From chaos to selective ordering of vortex cores in interacting mesomagnets

S Jain, V Novosad, FY Fradin, JE Pearson… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
A spin vortex consists of an in-plane curling magnetization and a small core region (~ 10
nm) with out-of-plane magnetization. An oscillating field or current induce gyrotropic …

Magnetic field sensor with voltage-tunable sensing properties

W Skowroński, P Wiśniowski, T Stobiecki… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report on a magnetic field sensor based on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel
junctions. By taking advantage of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the MgO/CoFeB …

Frequency-tunable perpendicular spin torque oscillator

CH Sim, M Moneck, T Liew, JG Zhu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We present an experimental study on the frequency tunability of a perpendicular spin
transfer torque oscillator with a perpendicularly magnetized (Co/Pd) 5 reference electrode …

Macrospin and micromagnetic studies of tilted polarizer spin-torque nano-oscillators

Y Zhou, H Zhang, Y Liu, J Åkerman - Journal of Applied Physics, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Using nonlinear dynamical systems theory, we analytically studied a spin-torque device in
which the magnetization of the polarizer (the fixed layer) is tilted at an arbitrary angle out of …

Stabilizing vortices in interacting nano-objects: a chemical approach

LM Lacroix, S Lachaize, F Hue, C Gatel, T Blon… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We report a chemical method to prepare metallic Fe porous nanocubes. The presence of
pores embedded inside the cubes was attested by electron tomography. Thanks to …