Mechanism of chirality reversal for planar interface domain walls in exchange-coupled hard/soft magnetic bilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  McCord, J ^a   Henry, Y ^b   Hauet, T ^c   Montaigne, F ^c   Fullerton, Eric E ^d   Mangin, S ^c  

^a Institute for Metallic Materials   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 52949115334     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.094417     Document Type: Article

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