Exchange coupled composite media for perpendicular magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3181-3186

  Wang, Jian Ping ^a,b   Shen, Weikang ^b   Bai, Jianmin ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange coupled composite (ECC) media; Exchange spring media; FeSiO; Oxygen doping; Perpendicular recording; Ru underlayer; Thermal stability; Tilted media; Writing capability

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EXHANGE SPRING MEDIA; FESIO; OXYGEN DOPING; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; RU UNDERLAYER; TILTED MEDIA; WRITING CAPABILITY;

MAGNETIC COUPLINGS;

EID: 27744519800     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855278     Document Type: Article

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