Evolution of structural and magnetic properties of amorphous CoFeB film with thermal annealing

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gupta, Ranjeeta ^a   Gupta, Ajay ^a   Gupta, Mukul ^a   Rajput, Parasmani ^b   Wildes, Andrew ^c  

^a UGC DAE CONSORTIUM FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHORT RANGE ORDERINGS; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; HARD X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PREFERENTIAL CRYSTALLIZATION; RANDOM ANISOTROPY MODELS; STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL FLUCTUATIONS; UNIAXIAL MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; COBALT COMPOUNDS; DIFFUSION; FREE VOLUME; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

COBALT;

EID: 84883405983     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4817882     Document Type: Article

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