The attractions of magnetism for nanoscale data storage

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1765, 2000, Pages 281-301

  Cowburn, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data storage; Hard disk drive; Magnetism; Memory; Nanotechnology; Quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348003158     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0532     Document Type: Article

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