Soft magnetic properties of obliquely deposited Co-Zr-O films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4060-4063

  Sun, Yuqin ^a   Sullivan, Charles R ^a   Li, Weidong ^a   Kopp, David ^b   Johnson, Francis ^c   Taylor, Seth T ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Co Zr O; Granular metal nonmetal films; Multilayer; Nano composite films; Oblique deposition; Shadowing effect; Soft magnetic properties; Stripe domains

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; METALLIC FILMS; MORPHOLOGY;

GRANULAR METAL-NONMETAL FILMS; OBLIQUE DEPOSITION; SHADOWING EFFECT; SOFT MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; STRIPE DOMAINS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 36349009414     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.907503     Document Type: Article

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