Origin of the asymmetric magnetization reversal behavior in exchange-biased systems: Competing anisotropies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Camarero, Julio ^a   Sort, Jordi ^b   Hoffmann, Axel ^c   García Martín, Jose Miguel ^d   Dieny, Bernard ^b   Miranda, Rodolfo ^a   Nogués, Josep ^e  

^a INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCHANGE-BIASED SYSTEMS; FERROMAGNETIC- ANTIFERROMAGNETIC (FM-AFM) BILAYERS; HYSTERESIS LOOP; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

ANISOTROPY; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 27144538562     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.057204     Document Type: Article

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