Generation of magnetic skyrmion bubbles by inhomogeneous spin Hall currents

Physical Review B

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Heinonen, Olle ^a,b   Jiang, Wanjun ^a   Somaily, Hamoud ^a,c   Te Velthuis, Suzanne G E ^a   Hoffmann, Axel ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Northwestern Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84960941095     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.094407     Document Type: Article

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