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Current-driven switching in a single exchange-biased ferromagnetic layer

Published

Author(s)

Tingyong Chen, Yi Ji, C Chien, Mark D. Stiles

Abstract

We demonstrate spin-transfer torque effects in a single exchange-biased ferromagnetic layer. A current through a point contact to the exchange-biased Co layer reverses the magnetization of a nanodomain in the layer hysteretically for low applied magnetic fields and reversibly for high fields (up to 9 T). These effects are the inverse of the domain wall magnetoresistance, in the same way that similar effects in multilayers are the inverse of giant magnetoresistance.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
93
Issue
2

Keywords

current-induced torque, magnetic switching, point contact, precsssion, spin current, spin-transfer

Citation

Chen, T. , Ji, Y. , Chien, C. and Stiles, M. (2004), Current-driven switching in a single exchange-biased ferromagnetic layer, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=620566 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created July 8, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021