Signal-to-noise ratio and thermal stability issues in extending synthetic ferrimagnetic media technology over 100 Gb/in2

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 645-650

  Acharya, B Ramamurthy ^a   Abarra, E Noel ^a   Inomata, Akihiro ^a   Ajan, Antony ^a   Shinohara, Masayoshi ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

High density magnetic recording; Signal to noise ratio; Thermal stability; Thin film media

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC RECORDING; PYROLYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THIN FILMS;

AREAL DENSITIES; SYNTHETIC FERRIMAGNETIC MEDIA;

FERRIMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0037360815     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808986     Document Type: Article

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