Micromagnetic simulation of magnetic cluster, thermal activation volume, and medium noise in perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1897-1901

  Igarashi, M ^a   Hara, M ^a   Nakamura, A ^a   Sugita, Y ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b Tonoku Institute of Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Magnetic cluster; Medium noise; Micromagnetic simulation; Thermal switching unit size

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SWITCHING;

PERPENDICULAR RECORDING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0041764620     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.813782     Document Type: Article

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