Interfacial effects of MgO buffer layer on perpendicular anisotropy of L10 FePt films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3017-3019

  Lim, B C ^a,b   Chen, J S ^a,b   Chow, G M ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Buffer layer; FePt; Interfacial effect; MgO

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BUFFER LAYERS; FEPT; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 33846609026     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878402     Document Type: Article

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