Development of Columnar Microstructure in Magnetron Sputter Deposited CoPtCr/Cr Magnetic Thin Films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 3688-3690

  Kim, Myong R ^a   Guruswamy, Sivaraman ^a   Johnson, Kenneth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLUMNAR MICROSTRUCTURE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0027694908     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.281270     Document Type: Article

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