Texture effects in IrMn/CoFe exchange bias systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2820-2823

  Aley, N P ^a   Vallejo Fernandez, G ^a   Kroeger, R ^a   Lafferty, B ^b   Agnew, J ^b   Lu, Y ^b   O'Grady, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Exchange bias; IrMn; Thermal activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249094046     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001317     Document Type: Article

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