Measuring magnetic field saturation and its site dependence in a recording head with a magnetic force microscope

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1708-1711

  Abe, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Yoichiro ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetic field saturation; Magnetic force microscope; Magnetic recording; Recording head

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HARD DISK STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (MFM); RECORDING HEAD;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 2642548333     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.826618     Document Type: Article

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