Near room-temperature formation of a skyrmion crystal in thin-films of the helimagnet FeGe

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 106-109

  Yu, X Z ^a   Kanazawa, N ^b   Onose, Y ^a,b   Kimoto, K ^c   Zhang, W Z ^c   Ishiwata, S ^b   Matsui, Y ^c   Tokura, Y ^a,b,d  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON SCATTERING; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN HALL EFFECT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; LORENTZ TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEAR ROOM TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM-EFFECT DEVICES; TEMPERATURE STABLE; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TWIN BOUNDARIES; TWIN STRUCTURE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 79151486671     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2916     Document Type: Article

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