Surface roughness effects on magnetization reversal of magnetic ring elements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ger, Tzong Rong ^a   Huang, Hao Ting ^a   Huang, Chen Yu ^a   Lai, Mei Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Magnetization reversal; Magnetoresistance; Permalloy films

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL ALLOYS;

CHEMICAL-ETCHING PROCESS; FUTURE DESIGNS; MAGNETIC BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RINGS; NUCLEATION FIELD; PERMALLOY FILMS; PERMALLOY RINGS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84903878356     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2273875     Document Type: Article

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