Magnetic Domain Walls (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Magnetic Domain Walls

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These schematics of magnetic domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized thin films show (a) left-handed and (b) right-handed Neel-type walls; and (c) left-handed and (d) right-handed Bloch-type walls. The directions of the arrows correspond to the magnetization direction.

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Berkeley Lab

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