Effect of the ferromagnetic layer thickness on the blocking temperature in IrMn/CoFe exchange couples

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2835-2838

  Vallejo Fernandez, G ^a   Kaeswurm, B ^a   Fernandez Outon, L E ^a   O'Grady, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blocking temperature; Exchange bias; IrMn

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149121752     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001812     Document Type: Article

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