New concept for magnetization switching by ultrafast acoustic pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 26, 2013, Pages

  Kovalenko, Oleksandr ^a   Pezeril, Thomas ^a   Temnov, Vasily V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; COHERENT PHENOMENA; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; MAGNETIZATION PRECESSION; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; MAGNETIZATION VECTOR; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE MATERIAL; SWITCHING THRESHOLDS;

SWITCHING;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 84879478226     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.266602     Document Type: Article

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