Dynamics of magnetic domain walls under their own inertia

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6012, 2010, Pages 1810-1813

  Thomas, Luc ^a   Moriya, Rai ^a   Rettner, Charles ^a   Parkin, Stuart S P ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE;

LOGISTICS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MEMORY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78650656670     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197468     Document Type: Article

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