Controlled vortex core switching in a magnetic nanodisk by a rotating field

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kravchuk, Volodymyr P ^a   Sheka, Denis D ^a   Gaididei, Yuri ^b   Mertens, Franz G ^c  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b BOGOLYUBOV INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SWITCHING;

CONTROLLED VORTEX CORE SWITCHING; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX PAIRS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 34548459867     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2770819     Document Type: Article

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