Energy barrier to magnetic vortex nucleation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Lau, J W ^a,b   Bording, J K ^a   Beleggia, M ^a   Zhu, Y ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE VORTEX NUCLEATION; ENERGY BARRIER; MAGNETIC VORTEX; PURE NUCLEATION;

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MAGNETIZATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 33645536276     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2150272     Document Type: Article

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