Chromium Segregation in CoCrTa/Cr and CoCrPt/Cr Thin Films for Longitudinal Recording Media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1564-1566

  Wittig, J E ^a,f,g   Nolan, T P ^a,e   Ross, C A ^a   Schabes, M E ^a,d   Tang, K ^a,b   Sinclair, R ^a,c   Bentley, J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e IBM   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromium grain boundary segregation; Energy dispersive spectroscopy; Energy filtered imaging; Longitudinal recording media

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT ALLOYS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MICROSTRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY (EDS); ENERGY FILTERED IMAGING;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0032115638     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706616     Document Type: Article

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