Creation of out-of-plane magnetization ordering by increasing the repetitions number N in (Co/Au)N multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2850-2853

  Tekielak, M ^a   Mazalski, P ^a   Maziewski, A ^b   Schafer R ^c   Mccord, J ^c   Szymanski B ^d   Urbaniak, M ^d   Stobiecki, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cobalt; Magnetic domains; Magnetization reversal; Multilayer films

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249131412     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001813     Document Type: Article

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