Asymmetric reversal in inhomogeneous magnetic heterostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Li, Zhi Pan ^a   Petracic, Oleg ^a,b   Morales, Rafael ^a,c   Olamit, Justin ^d   Batlle, Xavier ^a,e   Liu, Kai ^d   Schuller, Ivan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

ASYMMETRIC REVERSAL; DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC HETEROSTRUCTURES; NEGATIVE SATURATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 33744796585     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.217205     Document Type: Article

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