Thermally Activated Magnetization Rotation in Small Nanoparticles

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2507-2509

  Tsiantos, Vassilios ^a   Schrefl, Thomas ^a   Scholz, Werner ^a   Forster, Hermann ^a   Suess, Dieter ^a   Dittrich, Rok ^a   Fidler, Josef ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Magnetic reversal; Thermal activation; Thermal stability; Thermal switching

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SWITCHING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL ACTIVATION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0141884974     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816456     Document Type: Article

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