Annealing effect on the recovery of training effect in FeOx-CoFe polycrystalline systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2750-2752

  Zhang, K ^a   Zhao, T ^a   Fujiwara, H ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Annealing; Ferromagnet antiferromagnet exchange coupled systems; Iron oxide; Switching field; Training effect

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ANNEALING; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

THERMAL SPIN-FLIP MECHANISM;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036762447     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802869     Document Type: Article

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