Co-Fe metal/native-oxide multilayers: A new direction in soft magnetic thin film design II. Microscopic characteristics and interactions

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2053-2063

  Beach, G S D ^a   Berkowitz, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic multilayers; Magnetic recording; Magnetic shielding; Magnetodynamics; Permeability; Soft magnetic materials

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; IRON; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MULTILAYERS; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC COMPOSITE SYSTEM; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; MAGNETODYNAMICS; PERMEABILITY;

COBALT;

EID: 21644437364     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.847630     Document Type: Article

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