Nanosecond time-scale switching of permalloy thin film elements studied by wide-field time-resolved Kerr microscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Chumakov, Dmitry ^a   McCord, Jeffrey ^a   Schäfer, Rudolf ^a   Schultz, Ludwig ^a   Vinzelberg, Hartmut ^a   Kaltofen, Rainer ^a   Mönch, Ingolf ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FILM; MAGNETISM; MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPE; STROBOSCOPY;

EID: 17044365883     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.014410     Document Type: Article

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