Tuning of the nucleation field in nanowires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Kimling, Judith ^a   Gerhardt, Theo ^a   Kobs, André ^a   Vogel, Andreas ^a   Wintz, Sebastian ^b   Im, Mi Young ^c   Fischer, Peter ^c   Peter Oepen, Hans ^a   Merkt, Ulrich ^a   Meier, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO/PT MULTILAYER; DOMAIN NUCLEATION; GEOMETRICAL VARIATIONS; IN-PLANE ANISOTROPY; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SHADOWING EFFECTS;

DEPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MULTILAYERS; NANOWIRES; WIRE;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84877299892     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802687     Document Type: Article

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