Exchange-spring-driven spin flop in an ErFe2/YFe2 multilayer studied by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Stenning, G B G ^a   Buckingham, A R ^a   Bowden, G J ^a   Ward, R C C ^b   Van Der Laan, G ^c   Shelford, L R ^c   MacCherozzi, F ^c   Dhesi, S S ^c   De Groot, P A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053578749     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104428     Document Type: Article

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