Transverse and lateral structure of the spin-flop phase in Fe/Cr antiferromagnetic superlattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 167203/1-167203/4

  Lauter Pasyuk, V ^a,b,c   Lauter, H J ^c   Toperverg, B P ^d,e   Romashev, L ^f   Ustinov, V ^f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f INSTITUTE OF METAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CHROMIUM; IRON; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTILAYERS; REFLECTOMETERS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SUPERLATTICES; LATERAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETIZATION FLUCTUATIONS; SPIN-FLOP PHASE; TRANSVERSE STRUCTURE;

METALLIC SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0037078688     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.167203     Document Type: Article

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