Spin Flop Transition in a Finite Antiferromagnetic Superlattice: Evolution of the Magnetic Structure

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  te Velthuis, S G E ^a   Jiang, J S ^a   Bader, S D ^a   Felcher, G P ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

POLARIZED NEUTRON REFLECTIVITY (PNR); SPIN FLOP TRANSITIONS;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0037120389     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.127203     Document Type: Article

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