Co/Au multilayers with graded magnetic anisotropy for magnetic field sensing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Matczak, M ^a   Kuswik P ^a   Szymanski B ^a   Urbaniak, M ^a   Schmidt, M ^a   Aleksiejew, J ^a   Stobiecki, F ^a   Ehresmann, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD SENSING; MAGNETO RESISTIVE SENSORS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL; MAGNETORESISTIVE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SINGLE DOMAIN WALL;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84859954505     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4704176     Document Type: Article

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