The Role of Interfaces in CoFe/IrMn Exchange Biased Systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3008-3010

  Vallejo Fernandez, G ^a   Vopsaroiu, M ^a,b   Fernandez Outon, L E ^a   O'Grady, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Seagate Technology   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Exchange bias; interface; thermal activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008018428     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.879755     Document Type: Article

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