Activation volumes in Co2FeSi thin films

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2440-2443

  Sagar, J ^a   Fleet, L R ^a   Hirohata, A ^a,b   O'Grady, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activation volumes; half metal; magnetization reversal; spintronics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DOMAIN WALLS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON COMPOUNDS; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPINTRONICS;

ACTIVATION VOLUME; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN SIZE DEPENDENCE; GRAIN VOLUME; HALF METALS; HEUSLER ALLOY FILMS; INTERFACIAL REGION; TEM ANALYSIS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 80053552842     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2145367     Document Type: Article

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