Extraordinarily large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in epitaxially strained cobalt-ferrite CoxFe3-xO4(001) (x = 0.75, 1.0) thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Niizeki, Tomohiko ^a,d   Utsumi, Yuji ^a   Aoyama, Ryohei ^a   Yanagihara, Hideto ^a   Inoue, Jun Ichiro ^a   Yamasaki, Yuichi ^b   Nakao, Hironori ^b   Koike, Kazuyuki ^c   Kita, Eiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT FERRITES; EPITAXIAL THIN FILMS; MGO; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MAGNESIA; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84886389201     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824761     Document Type: Article

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