The structural and magnetic characterization of molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown FeMn-NiFe exchange-biased bilayers

Young Suk Choi; Amanda K. Petford-Long; Roger C C Ward

doi:10.1109/TMAG.2002.802856

The structural and magnetic characterization of molecular-beam-epitaxy-grown FeMn-NiFe exchange-biased bilayers

Young Suk Choi^*, Amanda K. Petford-Long, Roger C C Ward

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Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Structural and magnetic characterizations have been performed on NiFe-FeMn exchange-biased bilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The growth of the films showed high-quality epitaxy with well-defined flat interface between the layers. Magnetic measurements confirmed that the films showed not only a comparable exchange anisotropy field (H_ex) to that of sputtered films but also a lowered threshold thickness of 2 nm at which H_ex vanishes for the FeMn.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2758-2760
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Volume	38
Issue number	5 I
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2002.802856
State	Published - Sep 2002
Event	2002 International Magnetics Conference (Intermag 2002) - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Apr 28 2002 → May 2 2002

Keywords

Exchange anisotropy
Magnetic characterization
Molecular beam epitaxy
Structural characterization

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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