The Effect of Pinholes on the Properties of Co/Cu Multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 3583-3585

  Kikuchi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FERROMAGNETIC PINHOLES;

METALLIC SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0031220328     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619504     Document Type: Article

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