An effective route for the fabrication of rare earth-iron-boron thin films having strong c -axis texture and excellent hard magnetic properties

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tang, S L ^a,b   Gibbs, M R J ^a   Davies, H A ^a   Liu, Z W ^a   Lane, S C ^a   Mateen, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; OXIDATION; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS;

BUFFER LAYERS; DEPOSITION TEMPERATURE; HARD MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC STRUCTURES; RARE EARTH IRON BORON THIN FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33846265869     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2424539     Document Type: Article

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