Influence of stress and texture on soft magnetic properties of thin films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 3501-3520

  Zou, Pei ^a,b,c   Yu, Winnie ^c   Bain, James A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercivity; CoFe; FeAlN; Magnetic ripple; Soft magnetic properties; Stress; Stripe domain; Thin film

Indexed keywords

STRIPE DOMAINS;

COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRICTION; STRESSES; TEXTURES;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0036758569     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802705     Document Type: Article

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