Use of Room-Temperature Bias Sputtering to Decrease Intergranular Coupling in Magnetic Media Deposited on Polymeric Substrates

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3616-3618

  Lee, Hwan Soo ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Bain, James A ^a   Laughlin, David E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercive squareness; Coercivity; Polymeric substrates; Sputtered thin film tape media; Substrate bias

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; COERCIVE FORCE; GLASS TRANSITION; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SPUTTER DEPOSITION; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COERCIVE SQUARENESS; INTERGRANULAR COUPLING; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATES; SUBSTRATE BIAS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0346907034     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816296     Document Type: Article

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