Micromagnetic analysis of effective magnetic dipole position in magnetic force microscope tip

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2570-2578

  Li, Hongjia ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Wang, Sumei ^a   Zhong, Hai ^a   Wei, Dan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Effective dipole position; Magnetic force microscope; Micromagnetics; Point probe model; Tip

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN STRUCTURE; FIELD DISTRIBUTION; GEOMETRICAL SHAPES; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; MATERIALS PARAMETERS; MFM IMAGE; MICROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MICROMAGNETIC MODELS; MICROMAGNETICS; POINT DIPOLE; PROBE-MODEL; TRIANGULAR PRISM;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; MICROSCOPES; PROBES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77953824792     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2044510     Document Type: Article

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