Pulse electrodeposition of 2.4 T Co37Fe63 alloys at nanoscale for magnetic recording application

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-139

  Brankovic, Stanko R ^a   Yang, XiaoMin ^b   Klemmer, Timothy J ^b   Seigler, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Co Fe alloys; Corrosion; Electrodeposition; Pulse deposition; Saccharin

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ADSORPTION; COBALT ALLOYS; CORROSION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTORESISTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SACCHARIFICATION; THIN FILMS;

CO-FE ALLOYS; NANOCONFINED ELECTRODE; PULSE DEPOSITION; SACCHARIN;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 31344467263     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.861778     Document Type: Article

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