Influence of interface roughness, film texture, and magnetic anisotropy on exchange bias in [Pt/Co]3/IrMn and IrMn/[CoZPt]3 multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 238-245

  Kanak, Jarosław ^a   Stobiecki, Tomasz ^a   Van Dijken, Sebastiaan ^b  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Co Pt multilayer; Exchange bias; Magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

COBALT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PLATINUM;

EXCHANGE BIAS; FILM TEXTURES; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 38549139613     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.909438     Document Type: Article

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