Effect of microstructures on exchange anisotropy in mn-ir/ni-fe exchange-biased mutilayers with various stacking structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 2, 1999, Pages 3925-3927

  Ro, Jae Chul ^a   Choi, Young Suk ^b   Suh, Su Jung ^a   Lee, Hwack Joo ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

(111) texture; Buffer layer; Hx, epitaxial tendency; Mii ir ni fe; Stacking structure; The grain size of mn ir

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MANGANESE ALLOYS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYERS; NICKEL ALLOYS; TEXTURES;

EXCHANGE ANISOTROPY;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0033184030     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800710     Document Type: Article

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