Magnetic domain wall trapping by in-plane surface roughness modulation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1239-1241

  Swerts, J ^a   Temst, K ^a   Van Bael, M J ^a   Van Haesendonck, C ^a   Bruynseraede, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 0037463250     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1554771     Document Type: Article

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