Micromagnetic Structures of Recorded Transitions in Isotropic High-Coercivity Logitudinal Thin Films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 4177-4181

  Cameron, Graham P ^a   Judy, Jack H ^b  

^a HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIZATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FRESNEL LORENTZ TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ISOTROPIC HIGH COERCIVITY LONGITUDINAL THIN FILMS; MAGNETIC VORTEX STRUCTURES; MICROMAGNETIC STRUCTURES; RECORDED TRANSITIONS;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0027702665     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.280865     Document Type: Article

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