Increased field sensitivity in Co/Cu multilayers with soft adjacent layers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1297-1299

  Jardine, Daniel B ^a   Mathur, Neil D ^a   Blamire, Mark G ^a   Evetts, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Device; GMR; Sensitivity; Soft adjacent layer

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MULTILAYERS;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE (GMR); MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0032115529     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706527     Document Type: Article

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