Magnetization reversal of nanoscale Islands: How size and shape affect the arrhenius prefactor

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Krause, S ^a   Herzog, G ^a   Stapelfeldt, T ^a   Berbil Bautista, L ^a,b   Bode, M ^a,c   Vedmedenko, E Y ^a   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; IN-PLANE; ISLAND SIZE; META-STABLE STATE; MICROSCOPIC PROCESS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NANO-ISLANDS; NANOMAGNETS; NANOSCALE ISLANDS; PREFACTORS; SIMPLE MODEL; SIZE AND SHAPE; SPIN-POLARIZED SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMAL SWITCHING; VARIABLE TEMPERATURE;

MAGNETS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SIMULATORS;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 70349150598     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.127202     Document Type: Article

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