Top, bottom, and dual spin valve recording heads with PdPtMn antiferromagnets

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 700-705

  Tanaka, A ^a   Shimizu, Y ^a   Kishi, H ^a   Nagasaka, K ^a   Kanai, H ^a   Oshiki, M ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnets; Exchange coupling; Spin valve head; Ultra high vacumm deposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009667388     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.750631     Document Type: Article

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