Exchange bias in L10 (111)-oriented fept-based pseudo spin valves

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3881-3884

  Zha, C L ^a   Nogues J ^a,b   Åkerman, Johan ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exchange bias; Interlayer coupling; L10 FePt

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTANCE; PLATINUM ALLOYS;

COERCIVITY ENHANCEMENT; CU INTERLAYERS; EXCHANGE BIAS; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INTERLAYER COUPLING; L10-FEPT; PSEUDO SPIN VALVES; SOFT LAYERS;

IRON ALLOYS;

EID: 70349347595     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024122     Document Type: Article

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