Supercurrent enhancement in Bloch domain walls

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Robinson, J W A ^a   Chiodi, F ^b   Egilmez, M ^a   Halász, Gábor B ^a,c   Blamire, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETICS; MAGNETS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84867019660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00699     Document Type: Article

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