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Nature Materials 6, 399 - 400 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1917

Spintronics: A nanomagnet oscillator

Andrew D. Kent1

  1. Andrew D. Kent is in the Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA. e-mail: andy.kent@nyu.edu

A direct electrical current can drive high-frequency oscillations of the magnetization of a nanomagnet. A current-tunable microwave oscillator has now been demonstrated that shows large-amplitude oscillations.

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