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1IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California 95120-6099, USA.
Abstract:
The remanent magnetization of a hard ferromagnetic CoPtCr layer is progressively decreased by repeated switching of a neighboring soft magnetic layer. We show that this effect depends strongly on the thickness of the CoPtCr layer and the spacing between the hard and soft layers. We propose a model that accounts for these results: An interlayer magnetostatic coupling is induced by large stray fields from domain walls that form within the soft layer during its magnetization reversal.
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