Perpendicular recording heads for extremely high-density recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1942-1948

  Liu, Francis ^a   Stoev, Kroum ^a   Luo, Peng ^a   Liu, Yinshi ^a   Chen, Yingjian ^a   Chen, John ^a   Wang, James ^a   Gu, Shan Fan ^a   Kung, Kenneth T ^a   Lederman, Marcos ^a   Krounbi, Mohamad ^a   Re, Mark ^a   Otsuki, Akihiro ^b   Hong, Sooyoul ^c  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

^c SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

High areal density magnetic recording; Perpendicular recording; Probe head; Single pole head

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

HIGH-DENSITY RECORDING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0041764591     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.813773     Document Type: Article

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