Correlation between the degradation of perpendicular anisotropy and the double hysteresis behavior in [Pd/Co]n/FeMn exchange biased thin films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5271-5276

  Kim, Sunwook ^a   Bae, Seongtae ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Joo, Ho Wan ^a   Hwang, Do Guwn ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Sangji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Double hysteresis; Exchange bias; Perpendicular anisotropy degradation; Stress relaxation

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; DOMINANT FACTOR; EXCHANGE BIAS; FILM PLANES; HYSTERESIS BEHAVIOR; IN-PLANE; LAYER THICKNESS; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY DEGRADATION; STRESS-INDUCED; THEORETICAL RESULT; THERMALLY INDUCED;

ANISOTROPY; COBALT; DEGRADATION; FILM PREPARATION; HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; PALLADIUM; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS RELAXATION; THIN FILMS;

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 70450228529     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2025034     Document Type: Article

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