Thermal Williams-Comstock Model for Predicting Transition Lengths in a Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording System

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 137-147

  Rausch, Tim ^a   Bain, James A ^b   Stancil, Daniel D ^b   Schlesinger, Tuviah E ^b  

^a SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat assisted magnetic recording; Hybrid recording; Transition length; Williams Comstock recording model

Indexed keywords

JITTER; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC HEADS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; HYBRID RECORDING; TRANSITION LENGTH;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 1342308091     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.821569     Document Type: Article

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