Crossover from spin-flop coupling to collinear spin alignment in antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic nanostructures

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2386-2390

  Folven, Erik ^a   Scholl, Andreas ^b   Young, Anthony ^b   Retterer, Scott T ^c   Boschker, Jos E ^a   Tybell, Thomas ^a   Takamura, Yayoi ^d   Grepstad, Jostein K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

embedded nanostructures; magnetic dichroism; size effects; Spin flop coupling; X PEEM

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; ANTIFERROMAGNETS; BI-LAYER; CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATIONS; ELEMENT SPECIFICITY; FERROMAGNETIC BILAYERS; INTERFACE EXCHANGE; MAGNETIC DICHROISM; MAGNETIC ORDERS; PARALLEL SPIN ALIGNMENT; SIZE EFFECTS; SOFT X-RAY SPECTROMICROSCOPY; SPIN ALIGNMENT; SPIN FLOPS; TWO LAYERS; X-PEEM;

EXCHANGE COUPLING; MANGANESE OXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84861031489     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300361e     Document Type: Article

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