A new approach to micromagnetic simulation of thermal magnetic fluctuation noise in magnetoresistive read sensors

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-69

  Van Peppen, Jack C L ^a,b   Klaassen, Klaas B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic heads; Magnetic noise; Magnetoresistive devices; Magnetoresistive read sensors; Micromagnetic simulation; Spin torque transfer

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC NOISE; MAGNETORESISTIVE DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTIVE READ SENSORS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; SPIN TORQUE TRANSFER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SENSORS;

THERMAL NOISE;

EID: 30444450415     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2005.857852     Document Type: Article

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