Journal
COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 309-317Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.03.007
Keywords
Spintronics; Magnetism; Domain wall; Spin transfer
Funding
- CNRS
- JSPS
- European Research Council [ERC 2010 Stg 259068]
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The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied external field. Spin transfer can be used to induce magnetization reversals and oscillations, or to control the position of a magnetic domain wall. In this review, we focus on this last mechanism, which is today the subject of an extensive research, both because the microscopic details for its origin are still debated, but also because promising applications are at stake for non-volatile magnetic memories. (C) 2011 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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