Training of the exchange-bias effect: A simple analytic approach

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Binek, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; IRON; NICKEL; OXYGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; EXCHANGE BIAS EFFECT; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SPIN CONFIGURATIONAL RELAXATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAINING;

EID: 37649026742     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.014421     Document Type: Article

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