Quantification of magnetic domain disorder and correlations in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers by neutron reflectometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 4964-4967

  Langridge, Sean ^b   Schmalian, Jörg ^a,b   Marrows, C H ^c   Dekadjevi, D T ^c   Hickey, B J ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NEUTRON SCATTERING; REFLECTOMETERS;

MAGNETIC DOMAIN DISORDER; NEUTRON REFLECTOMETRY; STRUCTURAL DISORDER;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 0034430569     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4964     Document Type: Article

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