Topological defects and misfit strain in magnetic stripe domains of lateral multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Hierro Rodriguez, A ^a,b   Cid, R ^a,b   Velez M ^a   Rodriguez Rodriguez, G ^a,b   Martin J I ^a,b   Alvarez Prado, L M ^a,b   Alameda, J M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b CINN CSIC UNIOVI PA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RANGE; DISCLINATIONS; IN-PLANE MAGNETIZATION; INTERFACIAL MISFIT; MAGNETIC CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC STRIPES; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL PROCESS; MISFIT STRAINS; NANO-STRUCTURED; PERIODIC THICKNESS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; STRAINED SUPERLATTICE; STRIPE DOMAIN; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MULTILAYERS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 84866324424     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.117202     Document Type: Article

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