Ordering promotion and intergrain decoupling in FePt thin films by Ta and Ta/Bi buffer layers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Zhang, L J ^a   Cai, J W ^a   Pan, H Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BUFFER LAYERS; COERCIVE FORCE; DIFFUSION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

INSERTION LAYERS; INTERGRAIN EXCHANGE; INTERGRAIN EXCHANGE INTERACTION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 34547157570     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2752546     Document Type: Article

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