Atomic-scale modeling of nanoconstrictions

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2143-2145

  Mukherjee, Sonali ^a   Litvinov, Dmitri ^b   Khizroev, Sakhrat ^c  

^a SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Localized domain wall; Nanoconstriction; Scattering; Spin disorder

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HAMILTONIANS; ION EXCHANGE; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETOSTATICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCATTERING; SENSORS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATOMIC-SCALE MODELING; LOCALIZED DOMAIN WALL; NANOCONSTRICTION; SPIN DISORDER;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 4444263351     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.830159     Document Type: Article

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