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Nature Physics 3, 447 - 448 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys649

Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology | Techniques and instrumentation

Spintronics: Field-free ringing of nanomagnets

Thomas J. Silva1

  1. Thomas J. Silva is in the Electromagnetics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA. e-mail: silva@boulder.nist.gov


That the magnetic orientation of ferromagnets can be changed using magnetic fields has been known for centuries. But the exploration of magnetization control without any additional magnetic field has only just begun.

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