Thermally activated reversal in exchange-coupled structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2773-2775

  Wang, Y G ^a   Petford Long, A K ^a   Laidler, H ^b   O'Grady, K ^b   Kief, M T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange coupling; IrMn CoFe; Magnetization reversal; Thermal activation

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS;

THERMAL ACTIVATION;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0036762284     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.803158     Document Type: Article

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