Symmetry breaking in the formation of magnetic vortex states in a permalloy nanodisk

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Im, Mi Young ^a   Fischer, Peter ^a   Yamada, Keisuke ^b   Sato, Tomonori ^c   Kasai, Shinya ^d   Nakatani, Yoshinobu ^c   Ono, Teruo ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY;

ARTICLE; MAGNETISM; MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; X RAY;

EID: 84864848503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1978     Document Type: Article

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