Effect of grain size distribution on the performance of perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 955-967

  Miles, Jim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetic disk recording; Micromagnetic modeling; Perpendicular recording; Recording media

Indexed keywords

EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAGNETIC DISK RECORDING; MICROMAGNETIC MODELING; MICROSTRUCTURAL DISORDERS; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; RECORDING MEDIA;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EID: 33847691914     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888354     Document Type: Article

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