Generation of local magnetic fields at megahertz rates for the study of domain wall propagation in magnetic nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 26, 2009, Pages

  Bergman, Bastiaan ^a   Moriya, Rai ^a   Hayashi, Masamitsu ^a   Thomas, Luc ^a   Tyberg, Christy ^b   Lu, Yu ^b   Joseph, Eric ^b   Rothwell, Mary Beth ^b   Hummel, John ^b   Gallagher, William J ^b   Koopmans, Bert ^c   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; DOMAIN-WALL PROPAGATION; LOCAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC NANOWIRES; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES; PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; PUMP-PROBE; SCANNING KERR MICROSCOPY; STATIC AND DYNAMIC;

CRACK PROPAGATION; DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 73649118515     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3265738     Document Type: Article

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