Magnetoresistance, micromagnetism, and domain wall effects in epitaxial Fe and Co structures with stripe domains (invited)

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 8 II A, 1999, Pages 5243-5248

  Kent, Andrew D ^a   Rüdiger, Ulrich ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Thomas, Luc ^b   Parkin, Stuart S P ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0001304694     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.369956     Document Type: Article

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