Combined electrical and magneto-optical measurements of the magnetization reversal process at a domain wall trap.

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Zeng, Huang T ^a   Read, D ^a   Petit, D ^a   Jausovec, A V ^a   O'Brien, L ^a   Lewis, E R ^a   Cowburn, R P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MAGNETOS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

APPLIED FIELDS; DEPINNING; ENERGY LANDSCAPES; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL PROCESS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECTS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; MICRO-MAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NUCLEATION PROCESS; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 62549153603     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3098359     Document Type: Article

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