Domain walls and macroscopic spin-flip-like metamagnetism in Gd xCo1-x/GdyCo1-y exchange-coupled double layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Morales, R ^a   Martin J I ^a   Alameda, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 12244249204     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.174440     Document Type: Article

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