Westmijze's “Thin” Gap Head Revisited

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 3140-3154

  Mallinson, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

RESISTANCE PAPER; THIN GAP HEADS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0025516845     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.102902     Document Type: Article

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