Micromagnetic study of the switching fields in polycrystalline magnetic thin-film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4236-4241

  Gao, Kai Zhong ^a,b   Fernandez De Castro, Juan ^a,b   Bertram, H Neal ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy distribution; Grain size distribution; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Switching field distribution; Switching field reduction; Tilted perpendicular recording

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY DISTRIBUTION; MICROMAGNETIC STUDY; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; SWITCHING FIELD REDUCTION;

ANISOTROPY; COERCIVE FORCE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; SWITCHING;

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 28644439202     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.856773     Document Type: Article

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