Mechanism of Ripple Formation in Thin Films
- 1 March 1964
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 35 (3) , 824-825
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1713492
Abstract
To test the hypothesis that magnetization ripple in thin films is due to the randomly oriented magnetocrystalline anisotropies of the individual crystallites, highly oriented iron films have been made which exhibit a marked decrease in ripple intensity. Changes in ripple intensity, produced by applying mechanical stresses so as to vary the resultant uniaxial anisotropy constant of a given sample, are consistent with the model of variations of the local easy axis direction as responsible for the formation of magnetization ripple.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Anisotropy in Nickel-Iron FilmsJournal of Applied Physics, 1961
- Determination of Magnetization Distribution in Thin Films Using Electron MicroscopyJournal of Applied Physics, 1960