Dependence of exchange coupling interaction on micromagnetic constants in hard/soft magnetic bilayer systems

A. J. Zambano,1,* H. Oguchi,1 I. Takeuchi,1 Y. Choi,2,3 J. S. Jiang,2 J. P. Liu,3 S. E. Lofland,4 D. Josell,5 and L. A. Bendersky5 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 2Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA 4Department of Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, USA 5National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA Received 15 December 2006; published 30 April 2007