Optimum compositions for the low-temperature fabrication of highly ordered FePt (001) and FePt (110) films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2522-2524

  Seki, Takeshi ^a   Shima, Toshiyuki ^a   Takanashi, Koki ^a   Takahashi, Yukio ^a   Matsubara, Eiichiro ^a   Hono, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Composition dependence; FePt thin film; Low temperature fabrication; Sputter deposition

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FILMS; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBSTRATES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY ENERGY; COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE; FEPT THIN FILMS; LOW-TEMPERATURE FABRICATION;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 4444348714     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.832108     Document Type: Article

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