Micro-brillouin light scattering spectroscopy of magnetic nanostructures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-12

  Demokritov, Sergej O ^a   Demidov, Vladislav E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Magnetic nanostructured materials; Spin waves

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN WAVES; TORQUE;

LIGHT SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC NANOELEMENTS; MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPIN TORQUE TRANSFER EFFECT; SPIN WAVE DYNAMICS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 37449015058     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.910227     Document Type: Article

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