Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Magnetic droplet nucleation boundary in orthogonal spin-torque nano-oscillators

  • Sunjae Chung,
  • Anders Eklund,
  • Ezio Iacocca,
  • Seyed Majid Mohseni,
  • Sohrab R. Sani,
  • Lake Bookman,
  • Mark A. Hoefer,
  • Randy K. Dumas,
  • Johan Åkerman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11209
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Magnetic droplets occur in nanocontact spin-torque oscillators with perpendicular anisotropy, forming part of a family of particle-like magnetic objects, which may be excited for high-frequency applications. Here, the authors determine a current–field phase diagram for magnetic droplet nucleation.