Structure and magnetic properties of thin permalloy films near the transcritical state

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-336

  Svalov, A V ^a,b   Aseguinolaza, I R ^a   Garcia Arribas, A ^a   Orue, I ^a   Barandiaran, J M ^a   Alonso, J ^a   Fernandez Gubieda M L ^a   Kurlyandskaya, G V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Magnetic domains; Magnetic force microscopy; Permalloy films; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ARGON; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NICKEL ALLOYS; PERMALLOY; SUBSTRATES; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS;

CHARACTERISTIC SHAPES; CRITICAL THICKNESS; CRYSTALLINE TEXTURE; PERMALLOY FILMS; PERMALLOY THIN FILMS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; THIN PERMALLOY FILMS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 76249105553     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2032519     Document Type: Article

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