Depth-resolved investigation of the lateral magnetic correlations in a gradient nanocrystalline multilayer

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kentzinger, Emmanuel ^a   Rücker, Ulrich ^a   Toperverg, Boris ^a   Ott, Frédéric ^b   Brückel, Thomas ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 41549130835     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.104435     Document Type: Article

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