Thermal decay of signal and noise in high-density thin-film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 3, 1999, Pages 4326-4338

  Zhang, Yun ^a   Bertram, Hneal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic disk recording; Signal to noise ratio; Stability

Indexed keywords

THERMAL DECAY;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC FILM STORAGE;

EID: 0033184262     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.799083     Document Type: Article

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