Exchange-biased soft underlayers for perpendicular recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 577-580

  Tanahashi, Kiwamu ^a   Arai, Reiko ^a   Hosoe, Yuzuru ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjacent track erasure; Exchange biasing; Perpendicular recording; Soft magnetic underlayer (SUL)

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOMETERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADJACENT TRACK ERASURE; EXCHANGE BIASING; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; SOFT MAGNETIC UNDERLAYER (SUL);

SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 14544303120     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838047     Document Type: Article

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