Vortex core switching by coherent excitation with single in-plane magnetic field pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Weigand, Markus ^a   Van Waeyenberge, Bartel ^a,b   Vansteenkiste, Arne ^b   Curcic, Michael ^a   Sackmann, Vitalij ^a   Stoll, Hermann ^a   Tyliszczak, Tolek ^c   Kaznatcheev, Konstantine ^d   Bertwistle, Drew ^d   Woltersdorf, Georg ^e   Back, Christian H ^e   Schütz, Gisela ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

APPLIED FIELDS; COHERENT EXCITATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FIELD AMPLITUDES; IN-PLANE MAGNETIC FIELD PULSE; MAGNETIC VORTEX CORES; MICRO-MAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; SPACE AND TIME; SUBNANOSECOND; TIME-RESOLVED; TRAILING EDGES; VORTEX CORE REVERSALS; VORTEX CORES; X-RAY MICROSCOPIES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 61349186451     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.077201     Document Type: Article

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