Shift registers based on magnetic domain wall ratchets with perpendicular anisotropy

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 499-503

  Franken, J H ^a   Swagten, H J M ^a   Koopmans, B ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DIGITAL DEVICES; DOMAIN WALLS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; SHIFT REGISTERS;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; DOMAIN WALL DISPLACEMENT; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; NEW APPROACHES; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

COBALT; PLATINUM;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DENSITY; DEVICES; ENERGY; ENGINEERING; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84864884314     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.111     Document Type: Article

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