Origins of coercivity increase in annealed symmetric spin valves

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 5 PART 2, 1996, Pages 4636-4638

  McMichael, R D ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Dura, J A ^a   Borchers, J A ^a   Chen, P J ^a   Brown, H J ^a   Egelhoff Jr , W F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METALLIC FILMS; MULTILAYERS; OXIDATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PARTIAL OXIDATION; SYMMETRIC SPIN VALVES; X RAY REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS;

COERCIVE FORCE;

EID: 0030246723     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.539102     Document Type: Article

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