Electric-field control of magnetic domain-wall velocity in ultrathin cobalt with perpendicular magnetization

D. Chiba; M. Kawaguchi; S. Fukami; N. Ishiwata; K. Shimamura; K. Kobayashi; T. Ono

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journal article Jun 06, 2012

Electric-field control of magnetic domain-wall velocity in ultrathin cobalt with perpendicular magnetization

D. Chiba M. Kawaguchi S. Fukami N. Ishiwata K. Shimamura K. Kobayashi

T. Ono

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Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara 630-0101, Japan; Génétique Microbienne, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 78530 Jouy en Josas, France; Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, 1 via Ferrata, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Genetics, Smurfit Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland; Biochimie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, 25 Rue du Dr. Roux, 75015 Paris, France; Faculty of Science, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan; College...

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D. Chiba, M. Kawaguchi, S. Fukami, et al. (2012). Electric-field control of magnetic domain-wall velocity in ultrathin cobalt with perpendicular magnetization. Nature Communications, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1888

Electric-field control of magnetic domain-wall velocity in ultrathin cobalt with perpendicular magnetization

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