Direct observation of massless domain wall dynamics in nanostripes with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Vogel, J ^a   Bonfim, M ^a,b   Rougemaille, N ^a   Boulle, O ^c   Miron, I M ^c   Auffret, S ^c   Rodmacq, B ^c   Gaudin, G ^c   Cezar, J C ^d   Sirotti, F ^e   Pizzini, S ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; CONSTANT SPEED; CURRENT PULSE; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; DOMAIN-WALL DYNAMICS; HIGH DAMPING; MAGNETIC MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRIPES; NARROW WIDTH; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; TIME-RESOLVED;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 84862158433     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.247202     Document Type: Article

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