Compositional dependence of magnetoresistance in TbFeCo amorphous film

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2568-2570

  Tofizur Rahman, M ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoxi ^a,b   Matsumoto, Mitsunori ^a,b   Morisako, Akimitsu ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domain wall width; Magnetoresistance (MR) perpendicular anisotropy; TbFeCo film

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; TERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

DOMAIN WALL WIDTH; MAGNETORESISTANCE (MR) PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; TBFECO FILMS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS;

EID: 27744522083     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854664     Document Type: Article

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