Faster magnetic walls in rough wires

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 521-523

  Nakatani, Yoshinobu ^a,b   Thiaville, André ^a   Miltat, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NICKEL ALLOYS; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EDGE ROUGHNESS; MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURE; PERMALLOY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; EVALUATION; HARDNESS; MAGNETISM; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC WIRING; HARDNESS; MAGNETICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0042786168     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat931     Document Type: Letter

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