Discontinuous resistance change and domain wall scattering in patterned NiFe wires with a nanoconstriction

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2688-2690

  Lepadatu, S ^a   Xu, Y B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain wall movement; Domain wall scattering; Magnetoresistance; Nanoconstriction

Indexed keywords

DRAG; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SPIN COATING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

DOMAIN WALL MOVEMENT; DOMAIN WALL SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (MFM); NANOCONSTRICTION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 4444378396     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.832369     Document Type: Article

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