Laminated antiferromagnetically coupled media-optimization and extendibility

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 642-647

  Tang, Kai ^a   Margulies, David ^a   Polcyn, Adam ^a   Supper, Natacha ^a   Do, Hoa ^a   Mirzamaani, Mohammad ^a   Doerner, Mary ^a   Bian, Xiaoping ^a   Mercado, Mark ^a   Tang, Li ^a   Rosen, Hal ^a   Fullerton, Eric E ^a   Tsang, Ching ^a   Nimmagadda, Rao ^a   Xiao, Qi Fan ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media; Head field spacing loss; High moment magnetic alloy; Laminated; Longitudinal media; Magnetic anisotropy; Quinary magnetic alloy

Indexed keywords

LAMINATING; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC COUPLED (AFC) MEDIA; HEAD FIELD SPACING LOSS; HIGH-MOMENT MAGNETIC ALLOYS; LAMINATED; LONGITUDINAL MEDIA; QUINARY MAGNETIC ALLOYS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 20044367460     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.838054     Document Type: Article

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