Spin-torque building blocks

N Locatelli, V Cros, J Grollier - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
The discovery of the spin-torque effect has made magnetic nanodevices realistic candidates
for active elements of memory devices and applications. Magnetoresistive effects allow the …

Response to noise of a vortex based spin transfer nano-oscillator

E Grimaldi, A Dussaux, P Bortolotti, J Grollier, G Pillet… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We investigate experimentally and analytically the impact of thermal noise on the sustained
gyrotropic mode of vortex magnetization in spin transfer nano-oscillators and its …

Magnetic tunnel junctions with single-layer-graphene tunnel barriers

W Li, L Xue, HD Abruña, DC Ralph - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report on the fabrication and characterization of magnetic tunnel junctions consisting of a
single layer of graphene as the tunnel barrier, sandwiched between two metallic …

High emission power and Q factor in spin torque vortex oscillator consisting of FeB free layer

S Tsunegi, H Kubota, K Yakushiji… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Microwave oscillation properties of spin torque vortex oscillators (STVOs) consisting of an
FeB vortex free layer were investigated. Because of a high MR ratio and large DC current, a …

Higher order vortex gyrotropic modes in circular ferromagnetic nanodots

J Ding, GN Kakazei, X Liu, KY Guslienko… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Magnetic vortex that consists of an in-plane curling magnetization configuration and a
needle-like core region with out-of-plane magnetization is known to be the ground state of …

Noise-enhanced synchronization of stochastic magnetic oscillators

N Locatelli, A Mizrahi, A Accioly, R Matsumoto… - Physical Review …, 2014 - APS
We present an experimental study of phase locking in a stochastic magnetic oscillator. The
system comprises a magnetic tunnel junction with a superparamagnetic free layer, whose …

Large amplitude spin torque vortex oscillations at zero external field using a perpendicular spin polarizer

A Dussaux, E Grimaldi, B Rache Salles… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the microwave response of a spin transfer vortex based oscillator in a
magnetic tunnel junction with an in-plane reference layer combined with a spin valve with an …

Perfect and robust phase-locking of a spin transfer vortex nano-oscillator to an external microwave source

A Hamadeh, N Locatelli, VV Naletov, R Lebrun… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We study the synchronization of the auto-oscillation signal generated by the spin transfer
driven dynamics of two coupled vortices in a spin-valve nanopillar to an external source …

Origin of spectral purity and tuning sensitivity in a spin transfer vortex nano-oscillator

A Hamadeh, N Locatelli, VV Naletov, R Lebrun… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We investigate the microwave characteristics of a spin transfer nano-oscillator (STNO)
based on coupled vortices as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field H⊥ …

Modeling of emerging resistive switching based memory cells

A Makarov - 2014 - repositum.tuwien.at
For many decades charge-based memory (eg dynamic random access memory (DRAM),
flash memory, etc.) technologies have been successfully scaled down to achieve higher …