Practical FeCo films for perpendicular writer pole

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1718-1722

  Inturi, Venkateswara ^a   Yin, Huaqing ^a   Kief, Mark ^a   Hadley, Matthew ^a   Mathieu, Christoph ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercivity; effect of seed layer on grain size; FeCo films; oblique deposition

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; TEXTURES;

EFFECT OF SEED LAYER ON GRAIN SIZES; FECO FILMS; INFLUENCING PARAMETERS; MAGNETOELASTIC ENERGY; OBLIQUE DEPOSITION; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESSING CONDITION; UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPY;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 84860470686     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2170155     Document Type: Article

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