Tunable magnetization damping in transition metal ternary alloys

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4995-4997

  Ingvarsson, S ^a,b,c,d   Xiao, Gang ^a,b,c   Parkin, S S P ^a,c   Koch, R H ^b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Icelandic Technological Institute   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-PLANE ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIZATION DAMPING; PERMALLOY; TERNARY ALLOYS;

ALLOYING; DAMPING; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; OSMIUM; TERNARY SYSTEMS; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS; TUNING;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 19144364329     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1828232     Document Type: Article

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