Recording performance enhancement via in-situ annealing of multilayer media structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 1462-1464

  Harkness IV, Samuel D ^a   Zou, Jie ^a   Chen, Jianping ^a   Ranjan, Rajiv Y ^a   Rauch, Gary C ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boron magnetic alloys; Intergranular exchange coupling; Post deposition annealing; SMNR

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM ALLOYS; COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MULTILAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TEXTURES;

MULTILAYER MEDIA STRUCTURES;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0035386190     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.950871     Document Type: Article

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