Effects of the crystalline structure on the switching field and its distribution of bit patterned Co/Pt multilayer media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2686-2689

  Guo, Vickie W ^a   Lee, Hwan Soo ^b   Luo, Yi ^a   Moneck, Matthew T ^a   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Samsung Electro Mechanics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Co Pt multilayers; Medium microstructure; Switching field (SF); Switching field distribution (SFD)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SWITCHING;

CO/PT MULTILAYER; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; HIGH PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; POLYCRYSTALLINE SAMPLES; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SPUTTERING TECHNIQUES; SWITCHING FIELD; SWITCHING FIELD DISTRIBUTION;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 66549111880     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018640     Document Type: Article

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