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Chapter
Bottom up Magnonics: Magnetization Dynamics of Individual Nanomagnets
A review is provided of recent time-resolved scanning Kerr microscopy experiments and micromagnetic simulations of magnetization dynamics in single nanomagnets, and in pairs of dipolar coupled nanomagnets. Two...
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Article
Dry Etching of MRAM Structures
A wide variety of GMR and CMR materials have been patterned by high density plasma etching in both corrosive (Cl2-based) and non-corrosive (CO/NH3) plasma chemistries. The former produce much higher etch rates bu...
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Article
Iodine- and Bromine-Based Dry Etching of LaCaMnO3
Two novel plasma chemistries, BI 3 and BBr 3 , have been employed for dry etching of LaCaMnO 3 thin...
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Article
Plasma chemistries for dry etching of NiFe and NiFeCo
Plasma chemistries based on chlorine, bromine, or iodine have been investigated for inductively coupled plasma etching of NiFe and NiFeCo. There is clear evidence of a chemically enhanced etch mechanism with b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope
The magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM) marries the techniques of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), to produce a three-dimensional imaging instrument with high, potenti...
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Article
Dry and Wet Etch Processes for NiMnSb, LaCaMnO3 and Related Materials
A variety of plasma etching chemistries were examined for patterning NiMnSb Heusler thin films and associated A12O3 barrier layers. Chemistries based on SF6 and Cl2 were all found to provide faster etch rates tha...
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Article
Magnetic Properties of Multilayered Co-Cu Granular Composites
The magnetic properties of granular CO25Cu75/CU multilayer films prepared by sputtering onto heated glass substrates have been investigated in the range of ultrathin alloy films (5–250Å) and Cu spacer thicknesses...
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Article
Transport Measurements of Magnetic Multilayers at Reduced Lateral Dimensions
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Article
Structural and Magnetotransport Properties of NiMnSb/Cu and NiMnSb/Ag Multilayers
We report on the integration of the predicted half-metallic (100% spin-polarized) ferromagnetic Heusler alloy NiMnSb into NiMnSb/Cu and NiMnSb/Ag multilayer structures, and on their magnetic, microstructural a...
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Article
Low-Temperature Growth of NiMnSb Heusler Alloy Thin Films
Ferromagnetic Heusler alloys such as NiMnSb may have unique applications to magnetoresistive devices because of their predicted half-metallic band-structure (i.e., 100% spin-polarized at the Fermi level). Howe...
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Article
Sputter-deposition of NiMnSb magnetic thin films from a composite target onto Si substrates
We have deposited ferromagnetic NiMnSb thin films by sputtering from a single composite target onto Si wafer substrates. Similarly to earlier results using glass substrates, we find that a combination of low r...
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Article
Electron cyclotron resonance plasma etching of materials for magneto-resistive random access memory applications
Dry etching of multilayer magnetic thin film materials is necessary for the development of sensitive magnetic field sensors and memory devices. The use of high ion density electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) pl...
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Article
Nanotesla Detection Using the Planar Hall Effect
A magnetic field sensor based on the planar Hall effect has been developed using epitaxial permalloy (Ni80Fe20) ultrathin films (1-10 nm). The magnetic and magnetotransport properties of these films have been stu...
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Article
Process-Induced Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy in Epitaxial Fe and Ni80Fe20 Films
The occurrence of a weak in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Fe thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy onto (001)-oriented MgO substrates has been previously reported. We explain the occurrence of thi...
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Chapter
Magnetic and Magnetotransport Properties of Epitaxial (100)Fe/Pd Superlattices
Indirect exchange-coupling of ferromagnetic ultrathin films has been observed in various multilayer systems, with a number of different elements used for the interlayer (non-ferromagnetic) material. In particu...