An in situ anneal study of graded anisotropy FePtCu films

IEEE Magnetics Letters

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fang, Yeyu ^a   Dumas, R K ^b   Zha, C L ^a   Åkerman, Johan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

FePtCu films; graded anisotropy; Hard magnetic materials; in situ magnetic characterization; magnetic recording media

Indexed keywords

FEPTCU FILMS; GRADED ANISOTROPY; HARD MAGNETIC MATERIAL; IN SITU MAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION; MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA;

COPPER; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 79958715767     PISSN: 1949307X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMAG.2011.2114332     Document Type: Article

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