Decoupling the structural and magnetic phase transformations in magneto-optic MnBi thin films by the partial substitution of Cr for Mn

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2337-2339

  Bandaru, Prabhakar R ^a   Sands, Timothy D ^a   Kubota, Yukiko ^a   Marinero, Ernesto E ^b  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0004411233     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121355     Document Type: Article

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