Improvement of hard magnetic properties in microfabricated L1 0-FePt dot arrays upon post-annealing

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3604-3606

  Seki, Takeshi ^a   Shima, Toshiyuki ^a   Yakushiji, Kay ^a   Takanashi, Koki ^a   Li, Guo Qing ^a,b   Ishio, Shunji ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domain wall displacement; Dot array; FePt ordered alloy; Microfabrication; Post annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COERCIVE FORCE; IRON; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NUCLEATION; PLATINUM; THIN FILMS;

DOMAIN WALL DISPLACEMENT; DOT ARRAY; FEPT ORDERED ALLOY; MICROFABRICATION; POST-ANNEALING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 27744597566     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854787     Document Type: Article

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