Detection and in situ switching of unreversed interfacial antiferromagnetic spins in a perpendicular-exchange-biased system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Shiratsuchi, Yu ^a   Noutomi, Hayato ^a   Oikawa, Hiroto ^a   Nakamura, Tetsuya ^b   Suzuki, Motohiro ^b   Fujita, Toshiaki ^a   Arakawa, Kazuto ^c,d   Takechi, Yuichiro ^a   Mori, Hirotaro ^c   Kinoshita, Toyohiko ^b   Yamamoto, Masahiko ^a   Nakatani, Ryoichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Research Center for Ultra High Voltage Electron Microscopy   (Japan)

^d SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPINS; ATOMIC DIFFUSIONS; EXCHANGE BIAS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IN-SITU; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTRA; MAGNETIZATION CURVES; NEW DESIGN; RELATIVE PEAK INTENSITY; SOFT-X-RAY; SPINTRONICS DEVICE; ULTRA-FAST; VERTICAL SHIFT;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; DESIGN;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84865206842     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.077202     Document Type: Article

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