Angular dependence of exchange bias and coercive field in CoFe/MnIr epitaxial bilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2712-2714

  Kim, Dong Young ^b   Kim, Cheol Gi ^b   Kim, Chong Oh ^b   Shibata, M ^c   Tsunoda, M ^c   Takahashi, M ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystalline anisotropy; Domain pattern; Epitaxial bilayer; Exchange bias and coercive field

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION;

CRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY; DOMAIN PATTERN; EPITAXIAL BILAYERS; EXCHANGE BIAS AND COERCIVE FIELD;

COBALT ALLOYS;

EID: 27744584965     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854762     Document Type: Article

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