Thickness dependence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in inversion symmetry broken systems

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cho, Jaehun ^a   Kim, Nam Hui ^a   Lee, Sukmock ^a   Kim, June Seo ^b   Lavrijsen, Reinoud ^b   Solignac, Aurelie ^b   Yin, Yuxiang ^b   Han, Dong Soo ^b   Van Hoof, Niels J J ^a,b   Swagten, Henk J M ^b   Koopmans, Bert ^b   You, Chun Yeol ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; GREEN FUNCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

LIGHT SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THICKNESS;

EID: 84943780557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8635     Document Type: Article

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