Fabrication, microstructure, magnetic, and recording properties of percolated perpendicular media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 693-698

  Laughlin, David E ^a   Peng, Yingguo ^b   Qin, Yue Ling ^a   Lin, Mark ^a   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain wall pinning; Microstructure; Percolated media; Perpendicular magnetic media; Recording properties

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE;

DOMAIN WALL PINNING; PERCOLATED MEDIA; PERCOLATED PERPENDICULAR MEDIA; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC MEDIA; RECORDING PROPERTIES;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 33846596694     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888237     Document Type: Article

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