Spin-valve structures with NiO pinning layers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 843-845

  Cowache, C ^a,b   Dieny, B ^a,b   Auffret, S ^a,b   Cartier, M ^a,b   Taylor, Roger H ^a,b   O'Barr, R ^a,b   Yamamoto, S Y ^a,b  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b Phase Metrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant magnetoresistance; Magnetoresistive heads; Nio; Spin valves

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COBALT; COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

SPIN VALVES;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0032115567     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706281     Document Type: Article

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