Real-time temperature dynamics in exchange-biased bilayers upon laser excitation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1089-1092

  Weber, Markus C ^a   Nembach, Hans ^a   Hillebrands, Burkard ^a   Fassbender, Jürgen ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

All optical pump probe; Exchange bias; Heat as sisted magnetic recording; Temperature dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON BEAMS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALL-OPTICAL PUMP PROBES; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; LASER EXCITATION; TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 15844375535     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.841702     Document Type: Article

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