Tuning of anisotropy in IrMn/CoFe exchange bias systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3869-3872

  Aley, N P ^a   Kroeger, R ^a   Lafferty, B ^b   Agnew, J ^b   Lu, Y ^a   O'Grady, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange bias; Irmn; Texture; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BINARY ALLOYS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CHROMIUM METALLOGRAPHY; COBALT ALLOYS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; LATTICE MISMATCH; MANGANESE ALLOYS; NICKEL METALLOGRAPHY; SILICON ALLOYS; TEXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; URANIUM ALLOYS; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY CONSTANTS; DIRECT CURRENT SPUTTERING; EXCHANGE BIAS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; IRMN; SEED LAYER THICKNESS; THERMAL ACTIVATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDIES;

MANGANESE METALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350589141     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024955     Document Type: Article

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