Micromagnetic analysis of a magnetic domain wall in 2-D and 3-D nanocontacts

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2586-2588

  Komine, Takashi ^b   Takahashi, Tomohiro ^b   Ishii, Satoshi ^b   Sugita, Ryuji ^a,b   Muranoi, Tetsuo ^b   Hasegawa, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a IEEE

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exchange interactions; Magnetic domains; Magnetoresistance (MR); Nanostructured materials; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALL; MICROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; NANOCONTACTS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 27744554420     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854753     Document Type: Article

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