Researchers from France's Joseph Fourier University discovered that coating a cobalt film in graphene could double the film's perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), so that it reaches a value 20 times higher than that of traditional metallic cobalt/platinum multilayers.
High-PMA materials are being researched for their applications in next-generation spintronic devices.
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Posted: Dec 23,2015 by Ron Mertens