SNR improvement of granular perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1919-1924

  Zheng, M ^a   Choe, G ^a   Chekanov, A ^a   Demczyk, B G ^a   Acharya, B R ^a   Johnson, K E ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate layer; Perpendicular recording media; Recording performance; Soft magnetic underlayer

Indexed keywords

GRANULAR MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

PERPENDICULAR RECORDING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0041764610     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.813777     Document Type: Article

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