“…Based on algorithms of increasing sophistication [24] micromagnetic calculations have been used recently to address several issues relative to the ME tapes. These issues range from establishing the variation of magnetization from top to bottom of the magnetic layer [25] or the link between the magnitude of exchange coupling and the degree of co-operative reversal in the columns of crystalline grains [26]. It is our hope that the present experimental information will be used as input on which to base micromagnetic calculations or at least as a litmus test for the calculated results.…”