Interplay of energy dissipation, ion-induced mixing, and crystal structure recovery, and surface effects in ion-irradiated magnetic Fe/Cr/Fe trilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Brodyanski, A ^a   Blomeier, S ^a   Gnaser, H ^a   Bock, W ^a   Hillebrands, B ^a   Kopnarski, M ^a   Reuscher, B ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

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EID: 84855253910     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.214106     Document Type: Article

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