Chin. Phys. Lett.  2009, Vol. 26 Issue (4): 047501    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/26/4/047501
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
Training Effect and Hysteretic Behaviour of Angular Dependence of Exchange Bias in Co/IrMn Bilayers
ZHANG Jing, DU Jun, BAI Xiao-Jun, YOU Biao, ZHANG Wei, HU An
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093
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ZHANG Jing, DU Jun, BAI Xiao-Jun et al  2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 047501
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Abstract The training effect and the hysteresis behaviour of the angular dependence of exchange bias are extensively investigated upon the variation of the IrMn layer thickness tIrMn in a series of Co/IrMn bilayers. When tIrMn is very small, both of them are negligible. Then they increase very sharply with increasing tIrMn and then reach maxima at almost the same value of tIrMn. Finally they both decrease when tIrMn is further increased. The similar variation trends suggest that these phenomena arise from irreversible change of antiferromagnet spin orientations, according to the thermal activation model.
Keywords: 75.30.Et      75.30 Gw      68.60.Dv     
Received: 22 October 2008      Published: 25 March 2009
PACS:  75.30.Et (Exchange and superexchange interactions)  
  75.30 Gw  
  68.60.Dv (Thermal stability; thermal effects)  
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