Thermally stable CGC perpendicular recording media with Pt-rich CoPtCr and thin Pt layers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2006-2011

  Sonobe, Y ^a   Muraoka, H ^b   Miura, K ^b   Nakamura, Y ^b   Takano, K ^a   Moser, A ^a   Do, H ^a   Yen, B K ^a   Ikeda, Y ^a   Supper, N ^a   Weresin, W ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous layer; Granular layer; Perpendicular media; Pt layer; Signal to noise ratio; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; DEPOSITION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PLATINUM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

PERPENDICULAR MEDIA;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 20244387374     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.801810     Document Type: Article

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