Correlation between topography and magnetic surface anisotropy in epitaxial Fe films on vicinal-to-(001) Au surfaces with different step orientation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Rickart, M ^a   Mewes, T ^b   Demokritov, S O ^c   Hillebrands, B ^c   Scheib, M ^c  

^a INESC   (Portugal)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IRON;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 19544381061     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.060408     Document Type: Article

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