Stability of magnetic domains with notches in permalloy nanowires

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2481-2484

  Kim, Junyeon ^a   Jung, Myung Hwa ^b   Choe, Sug Bong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Magnetic domains; Micromagnetism; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN WALLS; IRON ALLOYS; NANOWIRES; NICKEL ALLOYS; PERMALLOY; STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VORTEX FLOW;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EDGE ROUGHNESS; FINITE TEMPERATURES; MICRO MAGNETISMS; MICROMAGNETIC CALCULATIONS; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANSVERSE WALLS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 66649122649     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018664     Document Type: Article

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