Microwave Signal Generation in Single-Layer Nano-Contact Spin Torque Oscillators

作者：Sani Sohrab Redjai^*; Durrenfeld Philipp; Mohseni Seyed Majid; Chung Sunjae; Akerman Johan

来源：IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2013, 49(7): 4331-4334.

DOI：10.1109/TMAG.2013.2250931

• Single layer
• spin torque oscillator
• vortex

We demonstrate spin transfer torque (STT) driven microwave signal generation, from about 250 MHz to above 3 GHz, in single perm alloy layers underneath a nano-contact with diameter of 100 nm. The threshold current for signal generation is found to be strongly hysteretic, the microwave signal shows a number of harmonics, zero-field operation is straightforward, and the microwave frequency increases quasi-linearly with drive current. All observations are consistent with STT driven motion of a vortex-antivortex pair nucleated by the Oersted field underneath the nano-contact. While the generated power is about 10 dB smaller than the best GMR based nano-contact spin torque oscillators, the linewidth of 6-100 MHz is of the same order.

• 出版日期2013-7