Influence of the thickness of the CoFe layer on the negative spin-valve effect in CoFe/Ag/CoFeGd trilayers

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Volumn 165, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 312-315

  Bellouard, C ^a   George, B ^a   Marchal, G ^a   Maloufi, N ^a,b   Eugene J ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VERLAINE METZ   (France)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Interface roughness; Spin valve effect; Thin films trilayer

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COBALT ALLOYS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SILVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SPIN VALVE EFFECT;

METALLIC SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0030871496     PISSN: 03048853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(96)00539-2     Document Type: Article

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