Artificial 'spin ice' in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7074, 2006, Pages 303-306

  Wang, R F ^a   Nisoli, C ^a   Freitas, R S ^a   Li, J ^a   McConville, W ^a   Cooley, B J ^a   Lund, M S ^b   Samarth, N ^a   Leighton, C ^b   Crespi, V H ^a   Schiffer, P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GLASS; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FERROMAGNETIC ISLANDS; GEOMETRICAL FRUSTRATION; STRUCTURAL GLASSES;

ICE;

PROTON;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GEOMETRY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 31144454793     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04447     Document Type: Article

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