Tetragonal D022 Mn3+xGe epitaxial films grown on MgO(100) with a large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Mizukami, Shigemi ^a   Sakuma, Akimasa ^a   Sugihara, Atsushi ^a   Kubota, Takahide ^a   Kondo, Yukio ^a   Tsuchiura, Hiroki ^a   Miyazaki, Terunobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FULLY SPIN-POLARIZED; GILBERT DAMPING; MGO(1 0 0); PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; UNIAXIAL MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

CALCULATIONS; EPITAXIAL FILMS; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 84890605204     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7567/APEX.6.123002     Document Type: Article

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