Controlled enhancement or suppression of exchange biasing using impurity δ layers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Ali, M ^a   Marrows, C H ^a   Hickey, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 41549099163     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134401     Document Type: Article

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