Topological coupling in spin valve type multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 5 PART 2, 1996, Pages 4630-4635

  Zhang, J ^a   White, R M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EXCHANGE COUPLING; INTERFACIAL ROUGHNESS; SPIN VALVE; TOPOLOGICAL COUPLING; UNIFORM MAGNETIZATION APPROXIMATION;

MAGNETOSTATICS;

EID: 0030246380     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.539101     Document Type: Article

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