Current progress of single-pole-type GMR heads for perpendicular recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 175-180

  Ito, Kenchi ^b   Kawato, Yoshiaki ^b   Arai, Reiko ^b   Okada, Tomohiro ^b   Fuyama, Moriaki ^b   Hamakawa, Yoshihiro ^b   Mochizuki, Masahumi ^b   Nishida, Yoshitaka ^b   Ichihara, Takayuki ^b   Takano, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

External field robustness; Head skew; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Single pole head

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; ION BEAMS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTIMIZATION;

FOCUSED ION BEAMS (FIB); PERPENDICULAR RECORDING;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 18344369541     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.988932     Document Type: Article

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