The ultimate speed of magnetic switching in granular recording media

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6985, 2004, Pages 831-833

  Tudosa, I ^a   Stamm, C ^a   Kashuba, A B ^b   King, F ^c   Siegmann, H C ^a   Stohr J ^a   Ju, G ^d   Lu, B ^d   Weeler, D ^d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETIZATION;

GRANULAR RECORDING MEDIA; MAGNETIC SWITCHING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

DATA MANAGEMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VELOCITY;

EID: 1942499418     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02438     Document Type: Article

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