Configurational stability and magnetization processes in submicron permalloy disks

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Ha, Jonathan Kin ^a   Hertel, Riccardo ^a   Kirschner, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; THICKNESS;

EID: 4243708578     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.064418     Document Type: Article

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