Coercivity Mechanism and Microstructure of (Co/Pt) Multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 2754-2759

  Suzuki, Takao ^a   Notarys, Harris ^a   Dobbertin, Darrell ^a   Lin, Chien Jung ^a   Weller, Dieter ^a   Miller, Doroles C ^a   Gorman, Grace ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COERCIVITY; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; PLATINUM; SPUTTERING;

MULTILAYERS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0026911350     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.179618     Document Type: Article

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