Competing Interactions in Patterned and Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanostructures

Springer Tracts in Modern Physics

Volumn 246, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-234

  Hellwig, Olav ^a   Heyderman, Laura J ^b   Petracic, Oleg ^c   Zabel, Hartmut ^d  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic Island; Micromagnetic Simulation; Perpendicular Anisotropy; Single Domain State; Vortex State

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103603486     PISSN: 00813869     EISSN: 16150430     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32042-2_6     Document Type: Chapter

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