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. 2017 Jun 27;7:4286. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03169-y

Table 2.

The nucleation field at K int = 0 erg/cm2 (H N0) and the slope (s) based on Eq. (12) for various hard/soft multilayers.

Hard/soft (t s) multilayers 4 nm 6 nm 8 nm 10 nm 12 nm
Nd2Fe14B/α-Fe H N0 (kOe) 3.960 −4.216 −8.766 −11.608 −13.526
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 3.694 2.330 1.580 1.128 0.837
Nd2Fe14B/Fe65Co35 H N0 (kOe) −2.402 −10.229 −14.105 −16.928 −18.580
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 2.994 1.730 1.094 0.737 0.520
SmCo5/α-Fe H N0 (kOe) 14.489 1.438 −5.260 −9.247 −11.845
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 3.696 2.117 1.349 0.920 0.658
SmCo5/Fe65Co35 H N0 (kOe) 5.163 −6.462 −12.210 −15.524 −17.624
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 2.781 1.461 0.869 0.560 0.382
FePt/α-Fe H N0 (kOe) 5.853 −3.466 −8.400 −11.406 −13.403
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 3.936 2.390 1.595 1.129 0.834
FePt/Fe65Co35 H N0 (kOe) −1.314 −9.873 −14.257 −16.861 −18.547
s (kOe · cm2/erg) 3.113 1.751 1.066 0.736 0.519