Design, Fabrication & Testing of Spin-Valve Read Heads for High Density Recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 3801-3806

  Tsang, Ching ^a   Fontana, Robert E ^a   Lin, Tsann ^a   Heim, D E ^a   Speriosu, Virgil S ^a   Gurney, Bruce A ^a   Williams, Mason L ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; DATA RECORDING; DESIGN; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FABRICATION; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; SENSORS;

HIGH DENSITY RECORDING; LINEAR DENSITY ROLLOFFS; MAGNETIC SIGNAL RESPONSE; MICROTRACK PROFILES; SPIN VALVE READ HEADS; SPIN VALVE SENSOR;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0028547879     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.333909     Document Type: Article

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