Structure, stress, and magnetic properties of high saturation magnetization films of FeCo

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2335-2337

  Vas'ko, Vladyslav A ^a   Rantschler, James O ^b   Kief, Mark T ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercivity; Feco film; Grain size; Lattice parameter; Sputtering; Stress; Structure; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COERCIVE FORCE; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELASTIC MODULI; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON ALLOYS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DOMAIN FORMATION; FECO FILMS; MAGNETOELASTICITY;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 4444250397     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.832256     Document Type: Article

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