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Detection of domain-wall position and magnetization reversal in nanostructures using the magnon contribution to the
V D Nguyen1, L Vila, P Laczkowski
1CEA, INAC, SP2M, Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
We show that magnetization reversal detection can be achieved at room temperature using the contribution of magnons to resistivity, in 50 nm wide nanowires with either perpendicular anisotropy (FePt) or in-plane magnetization (NiFe). Even though these nanowires are made from single layers, simple magnetoresistance measurements can be used to measure switching fields, or to detect the position of a domain wall along a nanowire. Surprisingly, in NiFe nanowires, and for applied fields nearly parallel to the wire, the magnon contribution is found to dominate the classical anisotropic magnetoresistance.
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