Effect of roughness, frustration, and antiferromagnetic order on magnetic coupling of Fe/Cr multilayers

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Volumn 200, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 290-321

  Pierce, D T ^a   Unguris, J ^a   Celotta, R J ^a   Stiles, M D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interfacial disorder; Interlayer exchange coupling; Magnetic multilayers; Spin density wave

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETISM; MULTILAYERS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRECIOUS METALS; SPIN DENSITY WAVES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; CHROMIUM; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC ORDERINGS; BIQUADRATIC COUPLING; CONVENTIONAL MODELING; INTERFACIAL DISORDER; INTERFACIAL ROUGHNESS; INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THICKNESS FLUCTUATIONS; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; SPIN DENSITY WAVE;

MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 0033204812     PISSN: 03048853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(99)00319-4     Document Type: Article

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