Pinning of magnetic domain walls to structural defects in thin layers within a Heisenberg-type model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Jourdan, Thomas ^a   Lançon, Frédéric ^a   Marty, Alain ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

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EID: 33947511758     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.094422     Document Type: Article

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