The effect of geometrical confinement and chirality on domain wall pinning behavior in planar nanowires

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Bogart, L K ^a   Eastwood, D S ^a   Atkinson, D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; ENANTIOMERS; FERROMAGNETISM; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PARTICLE BEAMS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THERMAL EVAPORATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIRE;

DEPINNING; DOMAIN WALLS; DOMAIN-WALL DEPINNING; DOMAIN-WALL PINNING; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GEOMETRICAL CONFINEMENT; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; MICRO-MAGNETIC SIMULATION; NANO WIRE STRUCTURES; NOTCH DEPTH; NOTCH GEOMETRY; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES; THIN-FILM DEPOSITIONS; WIRE WIDTH;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 49749101718     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2961313     Document Type: Article

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