Relevance of pinning, nucleation, and interaction in nanograined epitaxial hard magnetic SmCo5 films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Singh, A ^a   Neu, V ^a   Fahler S ^a   Nenkov, K ^a   Schultz, L ^a   Holzapfel, B ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

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EID: 67650034375     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.214401     Document Type: Article

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