Performance Analysis of a 0.3-Tb/in2 Low-Power MFM-Based Scanning-Probe Device

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3566-3574

  El Sayed, Rany Tawfik ^a   Carley, L Richard ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data storage; Magnetic force microscopy (MFM); Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); Micromagnetic simulations; Probe storage

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PYROLYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (MFM); MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 0348167576     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.819457     Document Type: Article

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