Simulations of magnetic recording in coupled granular/continuous perpendicular media with random pinning sites

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2051-2053

  Goodman, Andy M ^a   Greaves, Simon J ^a,b   Sonobe, Y ^c   Muraoka, H ^a   Nakamura, Y ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hoya Resaerch and Development Center   (Japan)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CGC perpendicular media; Micromagnetics; Transition noise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RANDOM PINNING SITES; TRANSITION NOISE;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0036761668     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.801831     Document Type: Article

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