Domain-wall superconductivity in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 793-798

  Yang, Zhaorong ^a   Lange, Martin ^a   Volodin, Alexander ^a   Szymczak, Ritta ^b   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; NIOBIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; DOMAIN-WALL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (DWS); SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; FERRIC ION; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETISM;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; MAGNETICS; OXIDES;

EID: 8344245735     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1222     Document Type: Article

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