Impact of microstructure on stability of permanent magnet biased magnetoresistive heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-60

  Zhu, Jian Gang ^a   O'Connor, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETISM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETORESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

HEAD STABILITY; PERMANENT MAGNET BIASED MAGNETORESISTIVE HEADS; SOFT ADJACENT LAYERS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0029769876     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.477550     Document Type: Article

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