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Electrical and Optical Control of Spin Dynamics

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As discussed in previous chapters, in early days, the magnetization dynamics was primarily investigated using high-frequency techniques based on electrical excitation and detection.

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Barman, A., Sinha, J. (2018). Electrical and Optical Control of Spin Dynamics. In: Spin Dynamics and Damping in Ferromagnetic Thin Films and Nanostructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66296-1_6

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