Wire width dependence of threshold current density for domain wall motion in Co/Ni nanowires

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3089-3091

  Koyama, Tomohiro ^a   Chiba, Daichi ^a,b   Ueda, Kohei ^a   Tanigawa, Hironobu ^c   Fukami, Shunsuke ^c   Suzuki, Tetsuhiro ^c   Ohshima, Norikazu ^c   Ishiwata, Nobuyuki ^c   Nakatani, Yoshinobu ^d   Ono, Teruo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 D magnetic recording; 2 D neural network equalizer; Channel modeling; double shielded reader sensitivity function; genetic algorithms

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NANOWIRES; THRESHOLD CURRENT DENSITY; WIRE;

CHANNEL MODEL; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK EQUALIZERS; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; SPIN TRANSFER MODEL; THRESHOLD-VALUE; WIRE WIDTH;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 80053471253     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2157308     Document Type: Article

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