Electric-current-driven vortex-core reversal in soft magnetic nanodots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Kim, Sang Koog ^a   Choi, Youn Seok ^a   Lee, Ki Suk ^a   Guslienko, Konstantin Y ^a   Jeong, Dae Eun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

INITIAL VORTEX; PERMALLOY NANODOTS; SUBSEQUENT ANNIHILATION; VORTEX EIGENFREQUENCY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 34548245640     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2773748     Document Type: Article

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