Identifying reversible and irreversible magnetization changes in prototype patterned media using first- and second-order reversal curves

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Winklhofer, Michael ^a,b   Dumas, Randy K ^a   Liu, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MAGNETIC RECORDING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SWITCHING;

IRREVERSIBLE MAGNETIZATION; PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 42149159522     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2837888     Document Type: Article

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