Write field analysis and write pole design in perpendicular recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2002, Pages 3521-3527

  Gao, Kai Zhong ^b   Bertram, H Neal ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Micromagnetic simulation; Perpendicular recording; Write field analysis; Write pole design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WRITE POLE DESIGN;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036756847     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.802744     Document Type: Article

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