Magnetic structure of domain walls confined in a nano-oxide layer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2616-2619

  Matsushita, Katsuyoshi ^a   Sato, Jun ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Current confined path; Current perpendicular to the plane giant magnetoresistive (CPP GMR); Domain wall; Micro magnetic simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949164844     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2003047     Document Type: Article

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