Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and spin glass-like behavior in molecular beam epitaxy grown chromium telluride thin films

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3772-3779

  Roy, Anupam ^a   Guchhait, Samaresh ^a   Dey, Rik ^a   Pramanik, Tanmoy ^a   Hsieh, Cheng Chih ^a   Rai, Amritesh ^a   Banerjee, Sanjay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

chromium telluride; ferromagnetic metal; magnetoresistance; molecular beam epitaxy; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; scanning tunneling microscopy; spin glass

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHROMIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; FILM GROWTH; GLASS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; REFLECTION HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPIN GLASS; THIN FILMS; TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

CHROMIUM TELLURIDES; HEXAGONAL ARRANGEMENTS; MAGNETO TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MAGNETO-TRANSPORT MEASUREMENT; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PROPERTY MEASUREMENT; SPIN-GLASS-LIKE BEHAVIORS; VIBRATING SAMPLE MAGNETOMETRY;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 84928974928     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5065716     Document Type: Article

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