Document Type
Article
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
94
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
We report the polarity reversal of a magnetic vortex core using a nonresonant in-plane pulsed magnetic field of arbitrary waveform studied using time-resolved x-ray photoemission electron microscopy and micromagnetic simulations. The imaging and simulations show that a 5 mT pulse, higher than the critical field for nonlinear effects, effectively leads to the randomization of the vortex core polarity. The micromagnetic simulations further show that the onset of stochastic core polarity randomization does not necessarily coincide with the critical reversal field, leading to a field window for predictable core reversal.
Publisher's Statement
Copyright (2009) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 172506 (2009), and may be found at http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v94/i17/p172506_s1.
Citation
D. J. Keavney, X. M. Cheng and K. S. Buchanan, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 172506 (2009).
DOI
10.1063/1.3111430