Thermally Stable High-Moment FeCo/IrMn Soft Underlayers for Perpendicular Media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2291-2293

  Jung, H S ^a   Doyle, W D ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange coupling; FeCo; High magnetization; Perpendicular media; Soft underlayers; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COERCIVE FORCE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIZATION; MULTILAYERS; TEXTURES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EXCHANGE COUPLINGS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0141919461     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816275     Document Type: Article

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