Simulating the maximum domain wall speed in a magnetic nanowire

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3219-3221

  Kunz, Andrew ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain wall dynamics; micromagnetic simulation; nanowires; permalloy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008013280     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.880141     Document Type: Article

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