Thermal stability of NiMn spin valve heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 586-590

  Zhang, Y B ^a,b   Van Der Heijden, P A A ^a   Nozieres, Jean Pierre ^a   Pentek, K ^a   Chin, T K ^a   Tuchscherer, T ^b   Zeltser, A M ^b   Blank, H R ^b   Trotter, S ^a   Jaren, S ^a   Speriosu, V S ^b  

^a Applied Magnetics Corporation   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERDIFFUSION (SOLIDS); MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL ALLOYS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CHEMICAL ORDERING; DYNAMIC ELECTRICAL TESTING; ELECTRICAL FAILURE; NICKEL MANGANESE ALLOYS; SPIN VALVE HEADS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0033723668     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.846222     Document Type: Article

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