Enhanced antiferromagnetic saturation in amorphous CoFeB-Ru-CoFeB synthetic antiferromagnets by ion-beam assisted deposition

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Huang, J C A ^a,b   Hsu, C Y ^a,b   Chen, S F ^a   Liu, C P ^a   Liao, Y F ^c   Lin, M Z ^c   Lee, C H ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ION BEAMS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MICROSTRUCTURE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

COUPLED SATURATION FIELD; ION-BEAM ASSISTED DEPOSITION; SYNTHETIC ANTIFERROMAGNETS (SYAFS);

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34547488966     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2748860     Document Type: Article

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