Direct Imaging and Determination of the Uncompensated Spin Density in Exchange-Biased CoO/(CoPT) Multilayers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26 I, 2003, Pages 2672021-2672024

  Kappenberger, P ^a   Martin, S ^a   Pellmont, Y ^a   Hug, H J ^a   Kortright, J B ^b   Hellwig, O ^c   Fullerton, Eric E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COERCIVE FORCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MULTILAYERS; SQUIDS;

EXCHANGE-BIASING; UNCOMPENSATED SPIN DENSITY;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 1042277411     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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