Mechanisms for exchange bias

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2000, Pages

  Stamps, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS;

EXCHANGE BIAS;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0034511522     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/33/23/201     Document Type: Article

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