Effect of grain size distribution on recording performance in longitudinal thin film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 61-66

  Zhou, Hong ^a   Neal Bertram, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain size distribution; Longitudinal thin film media; Micromagnetic simulation

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTATICS; REMANENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANISOTROPY FIELD; DIBIT RECORDING; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INTERGRANULAR EXCHANGE; LONGITUDINAL THIN FILM MEDIA; MAGNETOSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; NONLINEAR AMPLITUDE REDUCTION; NONLINEAR TRANSITION SHIFT; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION SQUARENESS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 0033903820     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.824426     Document Type: Article

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