Nanometer-size magnetic domains and coherent magnetization reversal in a giant exchange-bias system
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2011
The role of magnetic domains and domain walls in exchange bias has stimulated much contemporary deliberation. Here we present compelling evidence obtained with small-angle scattering of unpolarized- and polarized-neutron beams that magnetization reversal occurs via formation of 10-100s nm-sized magnetic domains in an exchange-biased DyFe2/YFe2 superlattice. The reversal mechanism is observed to involve rotation of magnetization in and out of the sample plane. Remarkably, the domains are arranged in a quasiperiodic manner in the plane of the sample. The length scale of domain formation is similar to that of structural defects at the seed-layer-superlattice interface.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Journal number | 6 |
| Pages | 064420 |
| ISSN | 1098-0121 |
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| State | Published |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 3 |
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Keywords
- Superconducting materials
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