Dependence of Magnetic Media Noise on Ultra-Thin Cr Underlayer Thickness

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 3099-3101

  Kim, Myong R ^b   Guruswamy, Sivaraman ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHROMIUM UNDERLAYERS; COLUMNAR GROWTH; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MAGNETIC MEDIA NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 0026911563     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.179725     Document Type: Article

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