Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9834654 | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Magnetic transmission soft X-ray microscopy has been used to study element-specifically the magnetization reversal behavior of (Co84Cr16)87Pt13 alloy thin films with a lateral resolution of 35Â nm. Our results indicate that the magnetization switching is carried out by a random nucleation process that can be attributed to the reversal of individual grains. We found evidence of a large distribution of the switching fields at the nanogranular length scale, which has to be considered seriously for applications of CoCrPt systems as magnetic high-density storage materials.
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Authors
P. Fischer, M.-Y. Im, T. Eimüller, G. Schütz, S.-C. Shin,