Tailoring the chirality of magnetic domain walls by interface engineering

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Gong ^a   Ma, Tianping ^b   N'Diaye, Alpha T ^a   Kwon, Heeyoung ^c   Won, Changyeon ^c   Wu, Yizheng ^b   Schmid, Andreas K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; IRIDIUM; NICKEL; PLATINUM;

COBALT; IRIDIUM; MAGNETIC FIELD; NICKEL; PLATINUM; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHIRALITY; DEVICES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILM; IMAGING; SPINTRONICS DEVICE;

EID: 84886706548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3671     Document Type: Article

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