Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in CoFeB/Pd bilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2116-2118

  Fowley, Ciarn ^a   Decorde, Nicolas ^a   Oguz, Kaan ^a   Rode, Karsten ^a   Kurt, Huseyin ^a   Coey, J M D ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA); Thin film capacitors

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FILM CAPACITOR; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OXIDE MINERALS; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

AS-DEPOSITED STATE; BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; MODEL SYSTEM; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; POST ANNEALING; SUPERPARAMAGNETICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRATHIN LAYERS;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77952849855     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2044374     Document Type: Article

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