Magnetic relaxation measurements of exchange biased (Pt/Co) multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy

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dc.creatorRomanens, Fabien
dc.creatorPizzini, Stefania
dc.creatorSort, Jordi
dc.creatorGarcia, Flavio
dc.creatorCamarero, Julio
dc.creatorYokaichiya, Fabiano
dc.creatorPennec, Yan
dc.creatorVogel, Jan
dc.creatorDieny, Bernard
dc.date2005-05-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:05:11Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:05:11Z
dc.descriptionMagnetic relaxation measurements were carried out by magneto-optical Kerr effect on exchange biased (Pt/Co)5/Pt/FeMn multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy. In these films the coercivity and the exchange bias field vary with Pt spacer thickness, and have a maximum for 0.2 nm. Hysteresis loops do not reveal important differences between the reversal for ascending and descending fields. Relaxation measurements were fitted using Fatuzzo's model, which assumes that reversal occurs by domain nucleation and domain wall propagation. For 2 nm thick Pt spacer (no exchange bias) the reversal is dominated by domain wall propagation starting from a few nucleation centers. For 0.2 nm Pt spacer (maximum exchange bias) the reversal is strongly dominated by nucleation, and no differences between the behaviour of the ascending and descending branches can be observed. For 0.4 nm Pt spacer (weaker exchange bias) the nucleation density becomes less important, and the measurements reveal a much stronger density of nucleation centers in the descending branch.
dc.descriptionEurophysical Journal B, in print DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2005-00053-3
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505312
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505312
dc.identifierEuropean Physical Journal B 45 (2005) 185
dc.identifierdoi:10.1140/epjb/e2005-00053-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/26357
dc.subjectOther Condensed Matter
dc.titleMagnetic relaxation measurements of exchange biased (Pt/Co) multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy
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