A theory of magnetization reversal in nanowires

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5471, Issue , 2004, Pages 48-57

  Maier, Robert S ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation barrier; Ferromagnetic cylinder; Ferromagnetic nanowire; Kramers prefactor; Kramers theory; Landau Lifshitz Gilbert equation; Magnetization reversal; N el Brown theory; Weak spatiotemporal noise

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION BARRIERS; FERROMAGNETIC CYLINDERS; KRAMERS PREFACTOR; KRAMERS THEORY; LANDAU-LIFSHITZ-GILBERT EQUATION; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; WEAK SPATIOTEMPORAL NOISE;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 4444288622     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.553199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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