Identification of unidirectional anisotropy in exchange-biased MnOGaMnAs bilayers using ferromagnetic resonance

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Dziatkowski, K ^a,b   Ge, Z ^a   Liu, X ^a   Furdyna, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FMR DATA; MNOGAMNAS BILAYERS; UNIDIRECTIONAL ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 33646714151     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2190767     Document Type: Article

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