Exchange-bias instability in a bilayer with an ion-beam imprinted stripe pattern of ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interfaces

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Theis Bröhl, Katharina ^a   Wolff, Maximilian ^a   Westphalen, Andreas ^a   Zabel, Hartmut ^a   McCord, Jeffrey ^b   Höink, Volker ^c   Schmalhorst, Jan ^c   Reiss, Günther ^c   Weis, Tanja ^d   Engel, Dieter ^d   Ehresmann, Arno ^d   Rücker, Ulrich ^e   Toperverg, Boris P ^a,f,g  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^g PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 33646408770     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.174408     Document Type: Article

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