Growth morphology of epitaxial Fe films on annealed MgO (001) surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 3037-3039

  Subagyo, Agus ^a,b   Sueoka, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Mukasa, Koichi ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bcc fe(001); Epitaxial growth; MgO(001); Segregated impurities; Substrate annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERRITES; FILM GROWTH; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC CORES; MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BODY CENTERED CUBIC (BCC) LATTICE; SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0033183898     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.801077     Document Type: Article

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