Current-driven dynamics of chiral ferromagnetic domain walls

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 611-616

  Emori, Satoru ^a   Bauer, Uwe ^a   Ahn, Sung Min ^a   Martinez, Eduardo ^b   Beach, Geoffrey S D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-DRIVEN; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; FERROMAGNETIC DOMAIN WALLS; INTERFACIAL DESIGN; INVERSION SYMMETRY; METALLIC FERROMAGNETS; SPIN TEXTURES; SPINTRONIC DEVICE;

CHIRALITY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; HEAVY METALS; MAGNETS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SPIN HALL EFFECT; TEXTURES;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84879415577     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3675     Document Type: Article

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