Domain wall propagation on nanometer scale: Coercivity of a single pinning center

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2583-2585

  Novoselov, Konstantin S ^a,b   Geim, A K ^b   Van der Berg, Dirk ^a   Dubonos, Sergey V ^c   Maan, Jan Kees ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Hall effect devices; Magnetic domains; Magnetization reversal

Indexed keywords

HALL EFFECT DEVICES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION; SQUIDS;

DOMAIN WALL PROPAGATION;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0036763062     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.801959     Document Type: Article

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