Recording and reversal properties of nanofabricated magnetic islands

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2822-2827

  Terris, B D ^a   Albrecht, M ^a,b   Hu, G ^a   Thomson, T ^a   Rettner, C T ^c  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High density recording; Island reversal properties; Magnetic arrays; Patterned media

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC STORAGE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS;

HIGH DENSITY RECORDING; ISLAND REVERSAL PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC ARRAYS; PATTERNED MEDIA;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 27744580934     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.855264     Document Type: Article

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