Variation in ferromagnetic domain density and domain asymmetry in Fe/ FeF2 exchange bias structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Widuch, S ^a,b,c   Celinski, Z ^c   Balin, K ^a,c   Schafer R ^b   Schultz, L ^b   Skrzypek, D ^a   McCord, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 44449155908     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.184433     Document Type: Article

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