Magnetic device for producing domains
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsCoenraad Jozef Maria Rooijmans, Willem Frederik Druyvesteyn, Jan Willem Frederik Dorleijn
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Abstract
Magnetic device comprising at least one thin layer of a magnetisable material which has a preferred direction of magnetisation substantially at right angles to the surface of the layer. Magnetic domains are produced by a magnetic field which is situated substantially in the plane of the layer and does not change direction and enables similar domains to be produced. The domains are there after maintained by a field normal to the layer. A domain guide structure may also be provided on the layer to move the domains.
Claims3
A magnetic device comprising at least one thin layer of a magnetizable material having a preferred direction of magnetization with a uniaxial anisotropy field H.sub.K substantially at right angles to the surface of the layer, means to produce a magnetic field having a strength exceeding the uniaxial anisotropy field in the plane of the layer which does not change direction whereby the layer is homogeneously magnetized, and means to reduce the magnetic field in the plane of the layer to zero whereby magnetic domains are produced in the layer.
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