Current-controlled magnetic domain-wall nanowire shift register

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5873, 2008, Pages 209-211

  Hayashi, Masamitsu ^a   Thomas, Luc ^a   Moriya, Rai ^a   Rettner, Charles ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; NANOWIRE;

CURRENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEMORY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 42049092112     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154587     Document Type: Article

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