Domain-wall pinning and depinning at soft spots in magnetic nanowires

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1708-1710

  Vogel, Andreas ^a   Wintz, Sebastian ^b   Kimling, Judith ^a   Bolte, Markus ^a   Strache, Thomas ^b   Fritzsche, Monika ^b   Im, Mi Young ^c   Fischer, Peter ^c   Meier, Guido ^a   Fassbender, Jrgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain walls and domain structure; Intrinsic properties of magnetically ordered materials; Magnetic properties of nanostructures; Magnetization reversal mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CHROMIUM; DOMAIN WALLS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IRON ALLOYS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; METAL IONS; NANOWIRES; NICKEL METALLOGRAPHY; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; X RAYS;

DOMAIN STRUCTURE; DOMAIN-WALL PINNING; MAGNETIC NANOWIRES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MAGNETIC TRANSMISSIONS; MAGNETICALLY ORDERED MATERIAL; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL MECHANISMS; SOFT X-RAY MICROSCOPY;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 77952800319     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2042285     Document Type: Article

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