Effective Anisotropy Fields and Ferromagnetic Resonance Behaviors of CoFe/PtMn/CoFe Trilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2993-2995

  Pettiford, C ^a   Zeltser, A ^b   Yoon, S D ^a   Harris, V G ^a   Vittoria, C ^a   Sun, N X ^a,c  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnetic ferromagnetic (AFM FM); exchange coupling; ferromagnetic resonance; magnetic multilayer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008040600     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.879759     Document Type: Article

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