Low-power selective control of ultrafast vortex-core switching by circularly rotating magnetic fields: Circular-rotational eigenmodes

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 3071-3074

  Kim, Sang Koog ^a   Lee, Ki Suk ^a   Choi, Youn Seok ^a   Yu, Young Sang ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Circular eigenmodes; Circularly rotating fields; Gyrotropic motion; Magnetic vortex (MV); Vortex core (VC) switching; Vortex based random access memory (VRAM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 58249097093     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001539     Document Type: Article

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