Highly in-plane oriented CoCrPtB longitudinal media for 130-Gb/in2 recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 633-638

  Choe, G ^a   Zhou, J N ^a   Demczyk, B ^a   Yu, M ^a   Zheng, M ^a   Weng, R ^a   Chekanov, A ^a   Johnson, K E ^a   Liu, F ^b   Stoev, K ^b  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal density; Longitudinal recording media; Orientation ratio; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MULTILAYERS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TEXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AREAL DENSITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC TEXTURE; HIGH IN PLANE ORIENTATION; LONGITUDINAL RECORDING MEDIA; ORIENTATION RATIO;

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037360030     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808984     Document Type: Article

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