Thermally activated magnetization reversal in exchange-biased [PtCo]3 PtIrMn multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Czapkiewicz, Maciej ^a   Stobiecki, Tomasz ^a   Van Dijken, Sebastiaan ^b,c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

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EID: 38349113532     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.024416     Document Type: Article

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