Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at Co/AlOx interface

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2865-2867

  Dahmane, Y ^a   Auffret, S ^a   Ebels, U ^a   Rodmacq, B ^a   Dieny, B ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Annealing effects; Co ALO interface; Extraordinary hall effect (EHE); Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949092741     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001992     Document Type: Article

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