Thickness-dependent perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of copt top layer on CoPt/AlN multilayer

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1663-1666

  Yu, Youxing ^a   Shi, Ji ^a   Nakamura, Yoshio ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disordered fcc CoPt; Enhanced coercivity; Magnetoelastic effect; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BINARY ALLOYS; COBALT ALLOYS; COERCIVE FORCE; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETISM; MULTILAYERS; TENSILE STRAIN; TEXTURES;

COPT/ALN MULTILAYERS; DISORDERED FCC COPT; ENHANCED COERCIVITY; IN-PLANE LATTICE PARAMETERS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MAGNETOELASTIC EFFECTS; PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 77952807511     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2044373     Document Type: Article

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