Reduction of threshold current for domain wall depinning using Gd doping of permalloy

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Lepadatu, Serban ^a   Claydon, Jill ^a   Ciudad, David ^a   Naylor, Adam ^a   Kinane, Christy ^b   Langridge, Sean ^b   Dhesi, Sarnjeet ^c   Marrows, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; DOMAIN-WALL DEPINNING; NON-ADIABATIC; NON-ADIABATICITY; PERMALLOY WIRES; PINNING POTENTIAL; PULSED CURRENTS; SPIN TRANSFER TORQUE; THRESHOLD CURRENTS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

GADOLINIUM;

EID: 77955486975     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.3.083002     Document Type: Article

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