Title :
Magnetization Dynamics in a Magnetic Tunnel Junction Due to Spin Transfer Torque in the Presence of Interlayer Exchange Coupling
Author :
Piotr Ogrodnik;Michał Wilczynski;Józef Barnas;Renata Swirkowicz
Author_Institution :
$^{1}$ Faculty of Physics,, Warsaw University of Technology, , Warsaw,, Poland
Abstract :
We present the results on current-induced magnetic dynamics in a single magnetic tunnel junction consisting of a thick magnetic layer separated by a tunnel barrier from a thin free magnetic layer. Both in-plane and out-of-plane torque components have been taken into account and both turned out to be important for description of magnetic switching and magnetic dynamics. The torque components have been calculated in the framework of spin polarized one-band free-electron-like model. The interlayer exchange coupling between magnetic layers through the tunnel barrier has also been taken into account. To describe current-induced dynamics, the calculated spin torque has been included into the phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.
Keywords :
"Torque","Magnetic tunneling","Couplings","Magnetic separation","Junctions","Magnetomechanical effects","Magnetic switching"
Journal_Title :
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
DOI :
10.1109/TMAG.2011.2108643