Direct evidence of imprinted vortex states in the antiferromagnet of exchange biased microdisks

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Salazar Alvarez, G ^a,b   Kavich, J J ^a   Sort, J ^c,d   Mugarza, A ^a   Stepanow, S ^a   Potenza, A ^e   Marchetto, H ^e   Dhesi, S S ^e   Baltz, V ^f   Dieny, B ^f   Weber, A ^g   Heyderman, L J ^g   Nogus J ^a,c   Gambardella, P ^a,c  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; BINARY ALLOYS; DICHROISM; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MANGANESE ALLOYS; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; ANTIFERROMAGNETS; DICHROISM SPECTRA; EDGE RESONANCE; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; MAGNETIC CONTRAST; MAGNETIC IMAGING; POLARIZED X-RAY;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 67650480849     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3168515     Document Type: Article

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