Ion beam sputtering of magnetoresistive multilayers: Co/Cu and Co-modified Ni81Fe19/Cu systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 5 PART 2, 1996, Pages 4722-4724

  Schmeußer, Stefan ^a   Hubert, Alex ^a   Rupp, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COERCIVE FORCE; COPPER; FILM GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ION BEAMS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL ALLOYS; OPTIMIZATION; SPUTTERING; VOLUME FRACTION;

ANTIFERROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED VOLUME FRACTION; GROWTH RATE; ION BEAM SPUTTERING METHOD; MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECT; MAGNETORESISTANCE RATIO; MAGNETORESISTIVE MULTILAYERS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 0030246292     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.539130     Document Type: Article

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