Displacement of domain walls under a nanocontact current: Mechanism for magnetoresistance asymmetric switching

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 2222-2224

  Osipov, V V ^a   Ponizovskaya, E V ^a   Garcia N ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

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EID: 0035475477     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1403315     Document Type: Article

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