Synchronous precessional motion of multiple domain walls in a ferromagnetic nanowire by perpendicular field pulses

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kim, June Seo ^a,b   Mawass, Mohamad Assaad ^a,c   Bisig, André ^a,c   Krüger, Benjamin ^a   Reeve, Robert M ^a   Schulz, Tomek ^a   Büttner, Felix ^a,d   Yoon, Jungbum ^e   You, Chun Yeol ^e   Weigand, Markus ^c   Stoll, Hermann ^c   Schütz, Gisela ^c   Swagten, Henk J M ^b   Koopmans, Bert ^b   Eisebitt, Stefan ^d,f   Kläui, Mathias ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Inha University   (South Korea)

^f HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

DISPLACEMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; DENSITY; DOMAIN WALL MOTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905920837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4429     Document Type: Article

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