Control of Magnetization-Reversal Mechanism via Uniaxial Anisotropy Strength in La0.67Sr0.33Mn O3 Electrodes for Spintronic Devices

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Phillips, L C ^a,b   Yan, W ^a   Moya, X ^a,c   Ghidini, M ^a,d   Maccherozzi, F ^e   Dhesi, S S ^e   Mathur, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; TERNARY ALLOYS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; ELECTRODE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL MECHANISMS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; NDGAO3 SUBSTRATES; PATTERNED ELEMENTS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPY;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 84951102403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.4.064004     Document Type: Article

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