Switchable collective pinning of flux quanta using magnetic vortex arrays: Experiments on square arrays of Co dots on thin superconducting films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Villegas, J E ^a,b,c   Smith, K D ^c   Huang, Lei ^d   Zhu, Yimei ^d   Morales, R ^c   Schuller, Ivan K ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 42449155909     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134510     Document Type: Article

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