Comparison between different methods of determining anisotropy constants of thin film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2670-2672

  Inaba, N ^a   Uesaka, Y ^b   Futamoto, M ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI MAXELL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic anisotropy; Magnetic torque; Polycrystalline thin film medium; Rotational hysteresis loss

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC TORQUE; ROTATIONAL HYSTERESIS LOSS;

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TORQUE MEASUREMENT;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0033184457     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800942     Document Type: Article

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