Simultaneous in-plane and out-of-plane exchange bias using a single antiferromagnetic layer resolved by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Nogus J ^a,b   Stepanow, S ^a   Bollero, A ^c   Sort, J ^a,b   Dieny, B ^d   Nolting, F ^e   Gambardella, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DICHROISM; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETS; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC LAYERS; ANTIFERROMAGNETS; COOLING FIELDS; ELEMENT SPECIFIC; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; OUT-OF-PLANE EXCHANGE BIAS; X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ZERO-FIELD COOLING;

X RAYS;

EID: 70350077534     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3232213     Document Type: Article

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