Longitudinal magnetic media designs for 60-200-Gb/in2 recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 651-656

  Bertero, Gerardo A ^a   Malhotra, Sudhir ^a   Bian, Bo ^a   Tsoi, Jackie ^a   Avenell, Michael ^a   Wachenschwanz, David ^a   Yamashita, Tom ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal density growth; Grain size; Grain size distribution; Longitudinal magnetic recording media; Magnetic media structure; Signal to media noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COERCIVE FORCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AREAL DENSITY GROWTH; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0037358468     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808987     Document Type: Article

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