Fabrication of head-flyable nanohole patterned media and dynamic write/read measurement with GMR head

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3226-3228

  Kikuchi, H ^a   Nakao, H ^a   Yasui, K ^b   Nishio, K ^b,c   Morikawa, T ^a   Matsumoto, K ^a   Masuda, H ^b,c   Itoh, K ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anodized alumina nanohole; Patterned media; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ANODIC OXIDATION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; FABRICATION; POLISHING; SURFACE PHENOMENA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANODIZED ALUMINA NANOHOLE; PATTERNED MEDIA; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING MEDIA;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 27744535183     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.854776     Document Type: Article

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