Magnetism of amorphous and nano-crystallized dc-sputter-deposited mgo thin films

Nanomaterials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 486-497

  Mahadeva, Sreekanth K ^a,b   Fan, Jincheng ^a,c   Biswas, Anis ^a,d   Sreelatha, K S ^b,e   Belova, Lyubov ^a   Rao, K V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b AMRITA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Government College   (India)

Author keywords

Annealing; Magnetron sputtering; Mg vacancy; O2 content; Room temperature ferromagnetism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908567491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano3030486     Document Type: Article

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