The phenomenology of exchange bias and related effects in nanostructures is reviewed.
The types of systems discussed include: lithographically fabricated ferromagnetic (FM) …

In the last twenty years, numerical modeling has become an indispensable part of
magnetism research. It has become a standard tool for both the exploration of new systems …

Exchange bias is commonly manifested as the hysteresis-loop shift observed when a
ferromagnet is in contact with an antiferromagnet. Here, we report observations of exchange …

abstract The exchange bias effect, discovered more than fifty years ago, is a fundamental
interfacial property, which occurs between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials …

Some of the main experimental observations related to the occurrence of exchange bias in
magnetic systems are reviewed, focusing the attention on the peculiar phenomenology …

Training of the exchange bias effect in antiferro-/ferromagnetic heterostructures is
considered in the theoretical framework of spin configurational relaxation, which is activated …

Exchange bias has been investigated for more than half a century and several insightful
reviews, published around the year 2000, have already summarized many key experimental …

Colloidal magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) have been applied in magnetic separations, in
medicine and in biochemistry. They are also potentially applicable in magnetic recording …

We have observed that CoO films grown on different substrates show dramatic differences in
their magnetic properties. Using polarization dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy at …

NiO nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by a sol–gel process using the citrate route. The sol–
gel parameters were tuned to obtain samples with different average particle sizes, ranging …