Current-excited magnetization reversal under in-plane magnetic field in a nanoscaled ferromagnetic wire

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Togawa, Yoshihiko ^a   Kimura, Takashi ^a   Harada, Ken ^a   Matsuda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Tonomura, Akira ^a   Otani, Yoshichika ^a   Akashi, Tetsuya ^b  

^a Discovery Research Institute   (Japan)

^b HITACHI HIGH TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; NUCLEATION;

CURRENT PULSE; LORENTZ MICROSCOPY; NANOSCALED FERROMAGNETIC WIRE; THERMAL EXCITATIONS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 38049045492     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2828865     Document Type: Article

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