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Nature Materials 3, 877–881 (1 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/nmat1237

Excitations of incoherent spin-waves due to spin-transfer torque

Kyung-Jin Lee , Alina Deac , Olivier Redon , Jean-Pierre Nozi|[egrave]|res & Bernard Dieny

The possibility of exciting microwave oscillations in a nanomagnet by a spin-polarized current, as predicted by Slonczewski and Berger, has recently been demonstrated. This observation opens important prospects of applications in radiofrequency components.