Strategy to reduce minimal magnetization switching field for Stoner particles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Sun, Z Z ^a   Wang, X R ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 33645467714     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.092416     Document Type: Article

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