Domain wall switching: Optimizing the energy landscape

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2941-2943

  Zhihong, Lu ^a   Visscher, P B ^a   Butler, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy gradient media; Exchange coupled media; Magnetic domain walls; Magnetic switching; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; OPTIMIZATION; SWITCHING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ANISOTROPY GRADIENT MEDIA; MAGNETIC SWITCHING; MEDIA DENSITY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 34249031932     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893630     Document Type: Article

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