The effect of substrate bias on the properties of nio/nife and nio/cofe exchange biased spinvalve sensors

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5 PART 2, 1998, Pages 37723777-

  Li, Shuxiang ^a,b   Plaskett, T S ^a   Freitas, P P ^c   Bernardo, J ^c   Almeida, B ^d   Sousa, J B ^d  

^a IEEE   (Portugal)

^b INESC   (Portugal)

^c 1ST Physics Department   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blocking temperature; Exchange field; Magnetoresistance; Spin valve; Substrate bias; Surface morphology; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747961633     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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