Nanocrystalline iron nitride films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Gupta, Ajay ^a   Dubey, Ranu ^a   Leitenberger, W ^b   Pietsch, U ^c  

^a UGC DAE CONSORTIUM FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

NANOCRYSTALLINE IRON NITRIDE FILMS; THERMAL ANNEALING;

NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 38949118227     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2840185     Document Type: Article

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