Controlling magnetization reversal in Co/Pt nanostructures with perpendicular anisotropy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rahman, M Tofizur ^a   Dumas, Randy K ^b   Eibagi, Nasim ^b   Shams, Nazmun N ^a   Wu, Yun Chung ^a   Liu, Kai ^b   Lai, Chih Huang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ASPECT RATIO; COMPOSITE FILMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETS; PRESSURE DROP;

AAO TEMPLATES; ANODIZED ALUMINAS; CO/PT MULTILAYERS; CO/PT NANOSTRUCTURES; DOMAIN-WALL PINNING; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; MAGNETIZATION - REVERSALS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL MECHANISMS; NANO-POROUS; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPIES; SIMPLE METHODS; SWITCHING FIELDS; TOPOGRAPHICAL CHANGES;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 59349094978     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3075061     Document Type: Article

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