Interactions in nanoscale arrays of soft magnetic bi-layers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2722-2725

  Davies, Joseph E ^a   Bennett, Larry H ^a,b   Torre, Edward Della ^a,b   Choi, B C ^c   Piramanayagam, S N ^d   Girgis, Emad ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hysteresis modeling; Patterned magnetic arrays; Preisach model; Soft magnetic bi layers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955123259     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001521     Document Type: Article

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