Controlled and reproducible domain wall displacement by current pulses injected into ferromagnetic ring structures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Klaui M ^a   Vaz, C A F ^b   Bland, J A C ^b   Wernsdorfer, W ^c   Faini, G ^d   Cambril, E ^d   Heyderman, L J ^e   Nolting, F ^e   Rudiger U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INJECTION LASERS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MICROMETERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; STORAGE RINGS; SWITCHING;

CURRENT PULSES; MAGNETIC DOMAIN WAALS; RING STRUCTURE; SPIN STRUCTURES;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 18044377598     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.106601     Document Type: Article

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