Experimental phase diagram of perpendicularly magnetized ultrathin ferromagnetic films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Saratz, N ^a   Lichtenberger, A ^a   Portmann, O ^a   Ramsperger, U ^a   Vindigni, A ^a   Pescia, D ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CIRCULAR DOMAINS; CU(1 0 0); DOMAIN PATTERN; HIGH-FIELD; SCALING PROPERTIES; STRIPE PHASE; T PARAMETER; TRANSITION LINES; ULTRA-THIN FERROMAGNETIC FILMS; ULTRATHIN FE FILMS; UNIFORM PHASE;

COPPER; CRITICAL CURRENTS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 77249164267     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.077203     Document Type: Article

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