Temperature induced single domain-vortex state transition in sub- 100 nm Fe nanodots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Dumas, Randy K ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Li, Chang Peng ^b   Roshchin, Igor V ^b,c   Schuller, Ivan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVE (FORC); NANODOTS; NANOMAGNETS; VORTEX STATE; VORTEX STATE TRANSITION;

HYSTERESIS LOOPS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MAGNETS; NUCLEATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 36248990682     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2807276     Document Type: Article

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