Chirality-dependent domain wall pinning in a multinotched planar nanowire and chirality preservation using transverse magnetic fields

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Eastwood, D S ^a   King, J A ^a   Bogart, L K ^a   Cramman, H ^a   Atkinson, D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN-WALL PINNING; MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECTS; OPPOSITE EDGES; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD;

CHIRALITY; DOMAIN WALLS; ENANTIOMERS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; NANOWIRES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIRE;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 78751487696     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3525733     Document Type: Article

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