Magnetic switching modes for exchange spring systems ErFe2 / YFe2 / DyFe2 / YFe2 with competing anisotropies

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Volumn 321, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2499-2507

  Zimmermann, Jürgen P ^a   Martin, Kevin ^a   Bordignon, Giuliano ^a   Franchin, Matteo ^a   Ward, Roger C C ^b   Bowden, Graham J ^a   de Groot, Peter A J ^a   Fangohr, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange spring; Hard soft multilayer; Multilayer; Rare earth multilayer

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY PROPERTIES; EXCHANGE SPRING; GROWTH AXIS; HARD-SOFT MULTILAYER; HIGH TEMPERATURES; LAYER THICKNESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS; MAGNETIC SWITCHING; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL PROCESS; MICRO-MAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; QUANTITATIVE CRITERION; RARE-EARTH MULTILAYER; REVERSAL BEHAVIORS; SEPARATION LAYERS; SPIN FLOPS; SWITCHING MODES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENTS; THRESHOLD TEMPERATURES;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MULTILAYERS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SWITCHING;

MULTILAYER FILMS;

EID: 65549166316     PISSN: 03048853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2009.03.024     Document Type: Article

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