Critical dimension of the transition from single switching to an exchange spring process in hard/soft exchange-coupled bilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 18, 2001, Pages

  Yan, Shi shen ^a   Xu, Feng ting ^a   Weston, J L ^a   Zangari, G ^a   Barnard, J A ^b  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

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ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ENERGY; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETISM; MODEL;

EID: 0035507663     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.184403     Document Type: Article

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