Magnetoresistance and Current-Driven Resistance Change Measurements in NiFe Film with a Nanoconstriction

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2615-2617

  Ohsawa, Yuichi ^a,b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic confinement; magnetic domains; magnetoresistance; nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025350     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878855     Document Type: Article

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