High ku materials approach to 100 gbits/in2

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 10-15

  Weller, D ^a   Moser, A ^a   Folks, L ^a   Best, M E ^a   Lee, W ^a   Toney, M F ^a   Schwickert, M ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fept; Hard magnet materials; High ku alloys; L10 phases; Longitudinal media

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HARD MAGNETIC MATERIAL; LONGITUDINAL RECORDING; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; ULTRAHIGH DENSITY MAGNETIC RECORDING; UNIAXIAL MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY;

IRON ALLOYS;

EID: 0033886632     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.824418     Document Type: Article

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