Temperature dependence of ferromagnet-antiferromagnet spin alignment and coercivity in epitaxial micromagnet bilayers

Michael S. Lee,1 Thomas A. Wynn,1 Erik Folven,2 Rajesh V. Chopdekar,1 Andreas Scholl,3 Scott T. Retterer,4 Jostein K. Grepstad,2 and Yayoi Takamura1,* 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA 2Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway 3Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94703, USA 4Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA (Received 28 February 2017; published 26 June 2017)