HREM study of spin valves with mnni pinning layer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 3679-3681

  Portier, Xavier ^a,b   Petford Long, Amanda K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FILM GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; TEXTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (HREM); PINNING FILMS; SPIN VALVES;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0031221537     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619536     Document Type: Article

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