Controlled Switching of Ferromagnetic Wire Junctions by Domain Wall Injection

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2860-2862

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

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain walls (DWs); Focused ion beam (FIB); Magnetic wires; Magnetization reversal

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUCLEATION;

WIRE JUNCTIONS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 0141918642     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816247     Document Type: Article

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