Detecting domain-wall trapping and motion at a constriction in narrow ferromagnetic wires using perpendicular-current giant magnetoresistance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1562-1564

  Zambano, A J ^a   Pratt Jr , W P ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MAGNETOREISTANCE (AMR); CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE (CPP); DOMAIN WALLS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WIRE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MULTILAYERS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 4944223745     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1787154     Document Type: Article

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