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Exchange Anisotropy in Ion-Beam Sputtered NiO Films

• "Growth of oxide exchange bias layers", US Patent 5,783,262, issued July 21, 1998.
• "Influence of Crystal Lattice Defects on Domain Wall Nucleation and Motion in Exchange-Bias Films", Materials Research Society Spring '98 Proceedings, Symposium L. (4K) 7 on-line figures.
• "Asymmetry of Domain Nucleation and Enhanced Coercivity in Exchange-Biased Epitaxial NiO/NiFe Bilayers", Phys. Rev. B 57, R8111 (1998). (4K) 3 on-line figures.
• "Direct experimental study of the magnetization reversal process in epitaxial and polycrystalline films with unidirectional anisotropy", J. Appl. Phys. 83, 6828 (1998). (4K) 4 on-line figures.
• "Exchange Anisotropy in Epitaxial and Polycrystalline NiO/NiFe Bilayers", Phys. Rev. B 58, 8566 (1998). Submitted January 1997.(5K) 7 on-line figures.
• "NiO Exchange Bias Layers Grown by Direct Ion Beam Sputtering of a Nickel Oxide Target", IEEE Trans. Magn. 32, 4651 (1996). (4K) 3 on-line figures.

Unusual Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Si Multilayers via Metallic Iron Silicides

• "Electronic Structure and Crystalline Coherence in Fe/Si Multilayers", accepted for publication in J. Cluster Sci. (PDF, 170K) 5 on-line figures.
• "Soft X-ray Fluorescence Study of Buried Silicides in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Fe/Si Multilayers," Phys. Rev. B 53, R8824 (1996). View the html version (3K) or download the printable postscript version instead. (55K with figures.) 4 on-line figures.
• "Magnetic Properties of Epitaxial and Polycrystalline Fe/Si Multilayers"
  J. Appl. Phys. 79, 4772 (1996). View the html version (5K) or download the printable postscript version instead. (44K with figures) 4 on-line figures.
• Structure and Magnetism of Fe/Si Multilayers Grown by Ion-Beam Sputtering Phys. Rev. B 53, 5518 (1996). (4K) 13 on-line figures.

Spin-valve giant magnetoresistance

• Composition Dependence of Giant Magnetoresistance in Fe/Ag/Co_xFe_1-x Sandwiches, J. Magn. Magn. Matls. 125, 228 (1993). (3K) 5 on-line figures.
• Spin-Valve Magnetoresistance of Uncoupled Fe-Cu-Co Sandwiches, J. Appl. Phys. 70, 5864 (1991). (2K) 4 on-line figures.
• Low-Field Spin-Valve Magnetoresistance in Fe-Cu-Co Sandwiches, Appl. Phys. Lett 59, 240 (1991). (2K) 4 on-line figures.

Giant Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial Fe/Cr/Fe Trilayers

• Temperature Dependence of Magnetoresistance in Fe-Cr-Fe Sandwiches, J. Appl. Phys. 69, 4798 (1991). (3K) 5 on-line figures.
• Magnetotransport Study of Fe-Cr-Fe Sandwiches Grown on ZnSe (100), J. Appl. Phys. 67, 4892 (1990). (3K) 5 on-line figures.

Miscellaneous

• "Apparatus and method for imaging metallic objects using an array of giant magnetoresistive sensors", US Patent 6,124,712, issued September 26, 2000.
• Unexploded Ordnance Detection using Imaging Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) Sensor Arrays, UXO Forum '97 Proceedings, in press (1997). (4K) 7 on-line figures.
• Cryogenically Cooled Multiple-Substrate Holder for High Vacuum, Rev. Sci. Instr. 65, 3870 (1994). (6K) 1 on-line figure. This paper describes the deposition system used in the work detailed above.
• Bibliography for 3 one-hour talks on Transition Metal Multilayer Magnetism I recently gave at the Workshop on Itinerant Magnetism at the International Center for Condensed Matter Physics at the Universidade de Brasilia
• A report I wrote about magnetism-related sessions at the Spring '97 Materials Research Society meeting
• My report on the session on "Multilayer GMR" at the '96 Intermag meeting

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The magnetization curves in our most recent papers were produced with a LakeShore Cryotronics magnetometer running an LLNL-produced FREE software package called VSM . This software has some associated hardcopy documentation. Send me your snailmail address if you want a copy. (2K)

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