On the Ferromagnetic Interlayer Coupling in Exchange-Biased Spin-Valve Multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 3918-3920

  Kools, J C S ^a   Rijks, Th G S M ^a,b   De Veirman, A E M ^a   Coehoorn, R ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETOSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; NICKEL ALLOYS; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EXCHANGE BIASED SPIN VALVE MULTILAYERS; FERROMAGNETIC INTERLAYER COUPLING; MAGNETOSTATIC COUPLING; NEEL MODEL;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0029409397     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.489816     Document Type: Article

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