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Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) Phys. Rev. B 66, 052408 (2002) (4 pages)

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Hysteresis curves of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in metallic multilayers by resonant x-ray scattering

Carlo Spezzani, Piero Torelli, and Maurizio Sacchi

Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, B.P. 34, 91898 Orsay, France

Renaud Delaunay and Coryn F. Hague

Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matière et Rayonnement (UMR 7614), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France

Farhad Salmassi and Eric M. Gullikson

Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

(Received 23 April 2002; published 9 August 2002)

We have measured field-dependent resonant magnetic scattering of soft x rays from a Co/Cu multilayer exhibiting giant magnetoresistance. We show that, choosing the appropriate experimental geometries, one can draw hysteresis loops of antiferromagnetic as well as ferromagnetic order. ©2002 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v66/e052408
doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.052408
PACS: 78.70.Ck, 75.70.Cn, 75.70.Pa, 78.20.Ls        Additional Information

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