Direct observation of the coherent precession of magnetic domain walls propagating along permalloy nanowires

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-25

  Hayashi, Masamitsu ^a,b   Thomas, Luc ^a   Rettner, Charles ^a   Moriya, Rai ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; NICKEL ALLOYS; PERMALLOY;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; LARMOR PRECESSION; MACROSCOPIC OBJECTS; PERIODIC VARIATION; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES; PRECESSION FREQUENCY; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; SPIN POLARIZED CURRENTS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 33845994071     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys464     Document Type: Article

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