Negative remanence in synthetic antiferromagnetically coupled FeCo/Ru/FeCo films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2359-2361

  Byeon, Soon Cheon ^a,b   Misra, Arkajyoti ^a   Visscher, Pieter B ^a   Doyle, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Calculation of hysteresis loops; Misalignment of easy axis; Negative remanence; Perpendicular media; Synthetic antiferromagnetic coupling

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; DEPOSITION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS; REMANENCE;

CALCULATION OF HYSTERESIS LOOPS; MISALIGNMENT OF EASY AXIS; NEGATIVE REMANENCE; PERPENDICULAR MEDIA; SYNTHETIC ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLING;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 4444281100     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.832452     Document Type: Article

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