Positive surface and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in natural nanomorphous Ni/NiO multilayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Poulopoulos, P ^a   Kapaklis, V ^b   Jonsson P E ^b   Papaioannou, E Th ^b   Delimitis, A ^c   Pappas, S D ^a   Trachylis, D ^a   Politis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAYER THICKNESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETIZATION AXIS; NATURAL OXIDATION; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; RADIO FREQUENCY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SATURATION FIELDS; SURFACE ANISOTROPY;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MULTILAYERS; METALLIC GLASS; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 77953011281     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3428791     Document Type: Article

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