Exchange coupling of (Mn-Ir, Fe-Mn)/Ni-Fe-Co and Ni-Fe-Co/(Mn-Ir, Fe-Mn) films formed by ion beam sputtering

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 3682-3684

  Nakatani, Ryoichi ^a,b   Hoshiya, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Hoshino, Katsumi ^a,b   Sugita, Yutaka ^a,b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FILM PREPARATION; ION BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MANGANESE ALLOYS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; NICKEL ALLOYS; SPUTTERING; TEXTURES;

EXCHANGE COUPLING;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0031223986     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619537     Document Type: Article

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