Electrical low-frequency noise in tunneling magnetoresitive heads: Phenomena and origins

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 663-670

  Klaassen, Klaas B ^a  

^a HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Low frequency; Noise modeling; Random telegraph noise; Tunneling magnetoresistive noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOELECTRIC EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMIGRATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

NOISE MODELING; RANDOM TELEGRAPH (RT); RANDOM TELEGRAPH NOISE; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTIVE NOISE;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 33846617333     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888225     Document Type: Article

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