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A novel method for determining magnetic anisotropies from hysteresis loops is presented. While sweeping the loop, a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the sweep-field axis. This causes the magnetization to rotate reversibly in a wide field range and still reach saturation at finite fields. As an example, surface and volume anisotropies are determined from magneto-optical Kerr effect loops in Co films grown on stepped Cu(001).
By: W. Weber, R. Allenspach and A. Bischof
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, volume 70, (no 4), pages 520-2 in 1997
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