Electrical probing of field-driven cascading quantized transitions of skyrmion cluster states in MnSi nanowires

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Du, Haifeng ^a   Liang, Dong ^b   Jin, Chiming ^a   Kong, Lingyao ^c   Stolt, Matthew J ^b   Ning, Wei ^a   Yang, Jiyong ^a   Xing, Ying ^d   Wang, Jian ^d   Che, Renchao ^e   Zang, Jiadong ^f,g   Jin, Song ^b   Zhang, Yuheng ^a,h   Tian, Mingliang ^a,h  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^h School of Electronic Science and Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON DENSITY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84936136245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8637     Document Type: Article

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