Interlayer Magnetic Coupling Interactions of Two Ferromagnetic Layers by Spin Polarized Tunneling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Faure Vincent, J ^a   Tiusan, C ^a   Bellouard, C ^a   Popova, E ^a   Hehn, M ^a   Montaigne, F ^a   Schuhl, A ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETOMETERS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; REFLECTION HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 0037009636     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.107206     Document Type: Article

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