Publication Date:
2008-04-12
Description:
The controlled motion of a series of domain walls along magnetic nanowires using spin-polarized current pulses is the essential ingredient of the proposed magnetic racetrack memory, a new class of potential non-volatile storage-class memories. Using permalloy nanowires, we achieved the successive creation, motion, and detection of domain walls by using sequences of properly timed, nanosecond-long, spin-polarized current pulses. The cycle time for the writing and shifting of the domain walls was a few tens of nanoseconds. Our results illustrate the basic concept of a magnetic shift register that relies on the phenomenon of spin-momentum transfer to move series of closely spaced domain walls.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hayashi, Masamitsu -- Thomas, Luc -- Moriya, Rai -- Rettner, Charles -- Parkin, Stuart S P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Apr 11;320(5873):209-11. doi: 10.1126/science.1154587.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA 95120, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18403706" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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