Characterization of heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Volumn 305, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-23

  Zhang, Li ^a,b   Bain, James A ^b   Zhu, Jian Gang ^b   Abelmann, Leon ^c   Onoue, Takahiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); High density perpendicular recording; Probe recording; Scanning tunneling microscope

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; PLATINUM; PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING (HAMR); HIGH DENSITY PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; PROBE RECORDING;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 33744530076     PISSN: 03048853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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