Effects of interlayer coupling in elongated Ni80Fe 20/Au/Co nanorings

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1906-1909

  Ren, Yang ^a,b   Adeyeye, Adekunle Olusola ^a   Nam, C ^c   Ross, Caroline A ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Co Au Ni80Fe20; Elongated nanorings; Exchange coupling

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COBALT ALLOYS; EXCHANGE COUPLING; GOLD; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTATICS; NANORINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SHIMS; VORTEX FLOW;

DOMAIN MOTIONS; INTERLAYER COUPLING; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL PROCESS; MAGNETOSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; SPACER LAYER; STATE TRANSITIONS; TWO-STEP SWITCHING;

IRON ALLOYS;

EID: 77952814995     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2038799     Document Type: Article

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