Ultrathin (Gd, Tb)-FeCo Films with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3808-3811

  Lee, Ching Ming ^a   Ye, Lin Xiu ^a   Lee, Jia Mou ^a   Chen, Wan Ling ^a   Huang, Chao Yuan ^a,c   Chern, Gung ^a,d   Wu, Te Ho ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OVERSEAS CHINESE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Perpendicular anisotropy constant; Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions; Rare earth transition metals alloys; Spin transfer switching

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; DYSPROSIUM ALLOYS; GADOLINIUM ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETISM; RARE EARTHS; TERBIUM ALLOYS; TERNARY ALLOYS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSITION METALS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ANNEALING TREATMENTS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; RARE EARTH TRANSITION METAL; SPIN TRANSFER SWITCHING; TBFECO FILMS; ULTRATHIN LAYERS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 70350608298     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2021845     Document Type: Article

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