Anisotropy pinning of domain walls in a soft amorphous magnetic material

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 3678-3689

  Schäfer, Rudolf ^a   Hubert, Alex ^a   Ho, Wing K ^b   Yamasaki, Jiro ^c   Humphrey, Floyd B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Sensormatic Electronics ^*  (United States)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION--DEMAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS;

BLOCH WALLS; DOMAIN WALLS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL DOMAINS; RIBBONS; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0026192511     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.102937     Document Type: Article

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