Recording performance characteristics of granular perpendicular media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 587-592

  Jiang, Wen ^a   Velu, E M T ^a   Malhotra, Sudhir ^a   Jung, H S ^a   Kwok, Chi Kong ^a   Bertero, Gerardo ^a   Wachenschwanz, David ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Granular double layer media; Perpendicular recording; Soft underlayer (SUL) domain noise; Synthetic antiferromagnetically coupled (SAF) soft underlayer

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; COBALT COMPOUNDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRANULAR DOUBLE-LAYER MEDIA; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; SOFT UNDERLAYER (SUL) DOMAIN NOISE; SYNTHETIC ANTIFERROMAGNETICALLY-COUPLED (SAF) SOFT-UNDERLAYER;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 14544307372     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838046     Document Type: Article

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