Soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of Mn-Ir/Co-Fe bilayers with giant exchange anisotropy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Tsunoda, M ^a   Nakamura, T ^b   Naka, M ^a   Yoshitaki, S ^a   Mitsumata, C ^c   Takahashi, M ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JASRI/Spring 8 ^*  (Japan)

^c HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BILAYERS; EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; TRANSMISSION MODE;

MANGANESE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33750453734     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2364116     Document Type: Article

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