Correlation between evolving magnetic and morphological properties in magnetic multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 840-842

  Doherty, S A ^a,b   Zhu, J G ^a,b   Dugas, M ^a,b   Anderson, S ^a,b   Tersteeg, J ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Advanced Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant magnetoresistance; Magnetic interaction; MSTL; Multilayer; Roughnessi

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COBALT ALLOYS; COERCIVE FORCE; COPPER; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METALLIC FILMS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; MORPHOLOGY; NICKEL ALLOYS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MULTISTACKED MULTILAYERS (MSTL);

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0032115984     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706279     Document Type: Article

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