Magnetization reversal in CoPt(111) hard/soft bilayers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Alexandrakis, V ^a   Niarchos, D ^a   Wolff, M ^b   Panagiotopoulos, I ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI LAYERS; COHERENCE LENGTHS; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; HARD LAYERS; HEAT-TREATMENT; HIGH ANISOTROPIES; INTERGRAIN COUPLINGS; LATERAL DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION - REVERSALS; MAGNETIZATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZED NEUTRON REFLECTOMETRY; SOFT LAYERS; SPIN-FLIP SCATTERINGS;

MAGNETS;

MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 63749118760     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3093936     Document Type: Article

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