Current- and field-driven magnetic antivortices for nonvolatile data storage

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Drews, André ^a   Krüger, Benjamin ^a   Meier, Guido ^a   Bohlens, Stellan ^a   Bocklage, Lars ^a   Matsuyama, Toru ^a   Bolte, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONVOLATILE STORAGE; POLARIZATION;

ANTIVORTEX; ANTIVORTICES; BINARY DATUM; CORE POLARIZATIONS; EXCITATION THRESHOLDS; IN-PLANE MAGNETIZATIONS; INDUCTIVE LOOPS; MICRO-MAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NON-VOLATILE DATUM; SPIN-POLARIZED CURRENTS; STORAGE ELEMENTS;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 60349107309     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072342     Document Type: Article

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