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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1899764
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We have fabricated nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with an additional fixed magnetic layer added above the magnetic free layer of a standard MTJ structure. This acts as a second source of spin-polarized electrons that, depending on the relative alignment of the two fixed layers, either augments or diminishes the net spin torque exerted on the free layer. The compound structure allows a quantitative comparison of spin torque from tunneling electrons and from electrons passing through metallic spacer layers, as well as analysis of Joule self-heating effects. This has significance for current-switched magnetic random access memory, where spin torque is exploited and, for magnetic sensing, where it is detrimental. (C) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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