Realization of ground-state artificial skyrmion lattices at room temperature

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gilbert, Dustin A ^a,b   Maranville, Brian B ^b   Balk, Andrew L ^c,d   Kirby, Brian J ^b   Fischer, Peter ^e,f   Pierce, Daniel T ^c   Unguris, John ^c   Borchers, Julie A ^b   Liu, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; SKYRMION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GROUND CONDITIONS; INNOVATION; IRRADIANCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETER; POLARIZATION; REFLECTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOLOGY; VORTEX;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETRY; MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84943774515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9462     Document Type: Article

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