Magnetic Anisotropy of FeCo Films Induced by Obliquely Sputtered Ru Underlayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4008-4010

  Lu, Z ^a   Fukuma, Y ^a   Butler, W H ^a   Fujiwara, H ^a   Mankey, G J ^a   Matsunuma, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b HITACHI MAXELL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multilayered media; thin films

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350130500     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024161     Document Type: Article

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