Domain wall interactions at a cross-shaped vertex

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1981, 2012, Pages 5794-5805

  O'Brien, L ^a   Beguivin, A ^a   Petit, D ^a   Fernandez Pacheco, A ^a   Read, D ^b   Cowburn, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Blackett Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain walls; Magnetic nanowires; Nanomagnetism

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES;

DEPINNING; DOMAIN WALL INTERACTIONS; FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE; MAGNETIC NANOWIRES; MICROMAGNETICS; NANOMAGNETISMS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 84870012233     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0089     Document Type: Article

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