Asymmetry of the magnetization reversal mechanism probed by relaxation measurements in La-Ca-Mn-O ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Panagiotopoulos, I ^a,b   Moutis, N ^a   Christides, C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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EID: 79956113050     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.132407     Document Type: Article

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