Experimental study of the influence of edge roughness on magnetization switching in Permalloy nanostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3510-3512

  Bryan, M T ^a   Atkinson, D ^a   Cowburn, R P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COERCIVE FORCE; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELECTRON BEAM ENERGY; HYSTERESIS LOOP; PERMALLOY NANOSTRUCTURES; POWER SPECTRUM;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 9744251585     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1806566     Document Type: Article

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