Switching Mechanism in Ring-Shaped Pseudospin Valves

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2525-2527

  Dao, N ^a,b   Whittenburg, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Magnetic switching; Micromagnetics simulation; Pseudospin valve; Ring shaped element

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETOSTATICS; SWITCHING;

MAGNETIC SWITCHING;

MAGNETIC DEVICES;

EID: 0141919415     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816464     Document Type: Article

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