Structural and magnetic properties of amorphous and nanocrystalline CoFeSiB thin films

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-411

  Yoon, Jungbum ^a,b   Park, Seung Young ^a   Jo, Younghun ^a   Jung, Myung Hwa ^c   You, Chun Yeol ^b   Kim, Taewan ^d   Youn Hwang, Jae ^e   In Yim, Hae ^e   Roh Rhee, Jang ^e   Sun Chun, Byong ^f   Song Kim, You ^f   Keun Kim, Young ^f  

^a Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

^d Sejong University   (South Korea)

^e Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

^f Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Amorphous; Antiferromagnetic exchange coupling; Nanocrystalline CoFeSiB thin film

Indexed keywords

COBALT; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; THICK FILMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AMORPHOUS; ANTIFERROMAGNETIC EXCHANGE COUPLING; COFESIB; NANO-CRYSTALLINE; NANOCRYSTALLINE COFESIB THIN FILM; STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS;

EID: 48849115523     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.926334     Document Type: Article

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