Design of compensated ferrimagnetic Heusler alloys for giant tunable exchange bias

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 679-684

  Nayak, Ajaya K ^a   Nicklas, Michael ^a   Chadov, Stanislav ^a   Khuntia, Panchanana ^a   Shekhar, Chandra ^a   Kalache, Adel ^a   Baenitz, Michael ^a   Skourski, Yurii ^b   Guduru, Veerendra K ^c   Puri, Alessandro ^c   Zeitler, Uli ^c   Coey, J M D ^d   Felser, Claudia ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FERRIMAGNETISM;

DESIGN APPROACHES; EXCHANGE ANISOTROPY; FERRIMAGNETIC STATE; HEUSLER COMPOUND; MAGNETIC SUBLATTICES; MAGNETIC TRANSITIONS; MATERIAL DESIGNS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84932193319     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4248     Document Type: Article

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