Tailoring the topology of an artificial magnetic skyrmion

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, J ^a   Tan, A ^a   Moon, K W ^b   Doran, A ^c   Marcus, M A ^c   Young, A T ^c   Arenholz, E ^c   Ma, S ^a   Yang, R F ^a   Hwang, C ^b   Qiu, Z Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE SIZE; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC SKYRMION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; FILM; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; THICKNESS;

EID: 84907361607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5704     Document Type: Article

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