Skyrmion flow near room temperature in an ultralow current density

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yu, X Z ^a   Kanazawa, N ^b   Zhang, W Z ^c   Nagai, T ^c   Hara, T ^c   Kimoto, K ^c   Matsui, Y ^c   Onose, Y ^b,d   Tokura, Y ^a,b,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKYRMION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRALOW CURRENT DENSITY;

EID: 84866138506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1990     Document Type: Article

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