Magnetisation reversal in permalloy nanowires controlled by near-field charge interactions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Beguivin, A ^a   O'Brien, L A ^a   Jausovec, A V ^b   Petit, D ^a   Cowburn, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CHARGE INTERACTIONS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HEAD-TO-HEAD DOMAIN WALLS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NEAR-FIELD; PERMALLOY NANOWIRES; PINNING STRENGTH; POTENTIAL WELLS; RELATIVE ORIENTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMAIN WALLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80053981864     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3646548     Document Type: Article

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