Angle-Dependent Switching of Granular and Multilayer Perpendicular Media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2314-2316

  Thomson, Thomas ^a,b   Coffey, Kevin R ^c   Thiele, Jan Ulrich ^a,b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Hitachi Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic films; Magnetic recording; Magnetization processes

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; MULTILAYERS; REMANENCE; SWITCHING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; VISCOSITY;

ANGLE-DEPENDENT SWITCHING;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0141953905     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816282     Document Type: Article

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