Magnetic clusters, intergranular exchange interaction and their microstructural basis in thin film longitudinal media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5 PART 2, 1997, Pages 4074-4076

  Tang, K ^a   Schabes, M E ^b   Ross, C A ^a   He, L ^a   Ranjan, R ^b   Yamashita, T ^b   Sinclair, R ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; FILM PREPARATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEPOSITION TEMPERATURE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY (EDS); INTERGRANULAR EXCHANGE INTERACTION; LORENTZ TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC CLUSTER SIZE; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MICROMAGNETIC STRUCTURE;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0031222727     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.619667     Document Type: Article

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