Controlled pinning and depinning of domain walls in nanowires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gerhardt, Theo ^a   Drews, André ^a   Meier, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; ANISOTROPY CONSTANTS; DEPINNING; DEPINNING FIELDS; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NUCLEATION SITES; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PINNING POTENTIAL; PINNING SITES; SWITCHING FIELD;

DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; NANOWIRES; NUCLEATION;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 83755168201     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/2/024208     Document Type: Article

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