Current-induced domain wall motion in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Jung, Soon Wook ^a   Kim, Woojin ^b   Lee, Taek Dong ^b   Lee, Kyung Jin ^c   Lee, Hyun Woo ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

DOMAIN WALL MOTION; MAGNETIC DOMAIN WALLS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; REDUCTION CONDITIONS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 44349190245     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2926664     Document Type: Article

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