Observation of injection and pinning of domain walls in magnetic nanowires using photoemission electron microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Thomas, Luc ^a   Rettner, Charles ^a   Hayashi, Masamitsu ^a   Samant, Mahesh G ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a   Doran, Andrew ^b   Scholl, Andreas ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALLS; ELLIPTICAL NUCLEATION PAD; MAGNETIC NANOWIRES; VORTEX-LIKE STRUCTURES;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; PHOTOEMISSION; PINCH EFFECT;

WIRE;

EID: 29744461220     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2139842     Document Type: Article

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