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SUBMITTER: Pushp A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4450437 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pushp Aakash A Phung Timothy T Rettner Charles C Hughes Brian P BP Yang See-Hun SH Parkin Stuart S P SS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150513 21
Spin-polarized charge currents induce magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) switching by virtue of spin-transfer torque (STT). Recently, by taking advantage of the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of magnetic materials, novel means of generating spin currents from temperature gradients, and their associated thermal-spin torques (TSTs), have been proposed, but so far these TSTs have not been large enough to influence MTJ switching. Here we demonstrate significant TSTs in MTJs by generating large ...[more]