Signal and Noise Aspects of Magnetic Tunnel Junction Sensors for Data Storage

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1 II, 2004, Pages 195-202

  Klaassen, Klaas B ^a   Xing, Xinzhi ^a   Van Peppen, Jack C L ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic recording; Magnetic tunnel junction; Read head; Tunneling magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; BOLOMETERS; CAPACITANCE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MODULATION; SENSORS; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION (MTJ); READ HEAD; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE (TMR);

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 1342286875     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.821200     Document Type: Article

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