Magnetic recording on FePt and FePtB intermetallic compound media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1077-1082

  Li, Ning ^a   Lairson, Bruce M ^b  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

FePtB media; Intermetallic compound FePt media; Near contact magnetic recording; Nonlinear transition shift

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; INTERMETALLICS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSDUCERS;

NONLINEAR TRANSITION SHIFT (NLTS);

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0033100491     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.748856     Document Type: Article

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