Onset of exchange bias in ultrathin antiferromagnetic layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Ali, M ^a   Marrows, C H ^a   Hickey, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; IRIDIUM; IRON; MANGANESE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MAGNETISM; THEORY; THICKNESS;

EID: 0038575788     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.172405     Document Type: Article

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