Domain wall induced switching of whisker-based tunnel junctions -: art. no. 144405

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作者
Schäfer, R
Urban, R
Ullmann, D
Meyerheim, HL
Heinrich, B
Schultz, L
Kirschner, J
机构
[1] IFW Dresden, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[3] Max Planck Inst Mikrostrukturphys, D-06120 Halle An Der Saale, Germany
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2002年 / 65卷 / 14期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.65.144405
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摘要
The magnetization behavior of a single-crystalline [Fe-whisker/MgO (20 ML)/Fe-film (20 ML)] sandwich (ML denotes monolayer) was studied by depth-selective Kerr microscopy. Residual stray fields of the whisker domain walls were identified to be responsible for complex magnetization processes in the iron film. A 180degrees wall in the whisker magnetizes the film transversally to the wall direction, depending on the internal rotation alignment of the whisker wall and not on its surface rotation. We also found that 360degrees walls can be formed in the film for pure topological reasons if Neel walls of certain rotation alignments are facing each other.
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