Experimental evidence of field-induced localization of spin excitations in NiFe elliptical rings by micro-focused brillouin light scattering

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1531-1536

  Madami, Marco ^a   Montoncello, Federico ^b   Capuzzo, Giulia ^b   Giovannini, Loris ^b   Nizzoli, Fabrizio ^b   Gubbiotti, Gianluca ^a   Tacchi, Silvia ^a   Carlotti, Giovanni ^a   Tanigawa, Hirobonu ^c   Ono, Teruo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Magnetic nanorings; Micro focusing; Soft modes; Spin waves

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; NANORINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SPIN WAVES; VORTEX FLOW;

BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERING; ELLIPTICAL NANORINGS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS; MICROFOCUSING; SCANNING PROBE TECHNIQUES; SOFT MODES; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 77952835127     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2038798     Document Type: Article

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