NiFe underlayer effects on exchange coupling field and coercivity in nife/femn films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 3691-3693

  Choe, G ^a   Gupta, S ^a  

^a Materials Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GRAIN GROWTH; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NICKEL ALLOYS; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; TEXTURES;

EXCHANGE COUPLING FIELDS; UNDERLAYER EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0031222751     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619540     Document Type: Article

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