Fast magnetization switching with circularly polarized fields and short pulses

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 3134-3136

  Scholz, Werner ^a   Crawford, T M ^b   Parker, Gregory J ^c   Clinton, T W ^a   Ambrose, T ^a   Kaka, Shehzaad ^a   Batra, Sharat ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast switching; Landau Lifshitz Gilbert (LLG) equation; Magnetization reversal

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849085322     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001600     Document Type: Article

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