Magnetic skyrmion transistor: Skyrmion motion in a voltage-gated nanotrack

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Xichao ^a   Zhou, Yan ^a   Ezawa, Motohiko ^b   Zhao, G P ^c,d   Zhao, Weisheng ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^e BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84934975098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11369     Document Type: Article

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