Crystal orientation of Mn-Ir antiferromagnetic films for exchange-biased soft-magnetic underlayer in perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2347-2349

  Suzuki, Toshio ^a   Ouchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a Akita Research Institute of Advanced Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystal orientation; Exchange bias; MgO; MnIr; Permalloy; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC FILM STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MANGANESE ALLOYS; NIOBIUM; SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SPUTTERING;

EXCHANGE BIAS; MGO; MNIR; PERMALLOYS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 4444295826     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.830418     Document Type: Article

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