Coercivity enhancement in exchange-biased ferromagnet/FeMn bilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 1844111-1844113

  Wang, L ^a   You, B ^b   Yuan, S J ^a   Du, J ^b   Zou, W Q ^b   Hu, A ^b   Zhou, S M ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; IRON; MANGANESE; NICKEL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM;

EID: 16244374853     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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