Electrical probing of magnetic phase transition and domain wall motion in single-crystalline Mn5Ge3 nanowire

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6372-6379

  Tang, Jianshi ^a   Wang, Chiu Yen ^a,b   Jiang, Wanjun ^a   Chang, Li Te ^a   Fan, Yabin ^a   Chan, Michael ^a   Wu, Can ^a   Hung, Min Hsiu ^b   Liu, Pei Hsuan ^b   Yang, Hong Jie ^b   Tuan, Hsing Yu ^b   Chen, Lih Juann ^b   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

critical behavior; domain wall motion; Ferromagnetic nanowire; magnetic phase transition; Mn5Ge3

Indexed keywords

1D SYSTEMS; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL EXPONENT; DEPINNING; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; DOMAIN-WALL DEPINNING; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE; FERROMAGNETIC STATE; FIRST-ORDER DERIVATIVE; FOUR-PROBE; MAGNETIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; MAGNETIC TRANSITIONS; MAGNETO-TRANSPORT MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE DOMAINS; NONCOLLINEAR; POWER LAW RELATION; RADIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SLOPE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOMAIN WALLS; ENERGY BARRIERS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GERMANIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOS; MANGANESE; NANOWIRES; PARAMAGNETISM; SOLID STATE REACTIONS;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84870921467     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303645k     Document Type: Article

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