Magnetic domain-wall dynamics in a submicrometre ferromagnetic structure

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-87

  Atkinson, Del ^a   Allwood, Dan A ^a   Xiong, Gang ^a   Cooke, Michael D ^a   Faulkner, Colm C ^a   Cowburn, Russell P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

NANOWIRES;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

FERRIC ION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MAGNETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037318381     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat803     Document Type: Article

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