Publication Date:
2001-02-13
Description:
As electrons are injected at various energies into ferromagnetic material with their spin polarization vector perpendicular to the axis of the magnetization, we observe precessional motion of the spin polarization on the femtosecond time scale. Because of angular momentum conservation, the magnetization vector must precess as well. We show that spin injection will generate the precessional magnetization reversal in nanosized ferromagnetic bits. At reasonable injected current densities this occurs on the picosecond time scale.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Weber, W -- Riesen, S -- Siegmann, H C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Feb 9;291(5506):1015-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratorium fur Festkorperphysik, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. weber@solid.phys.ethz.ch〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11161209" 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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