Dynamic write/read characteristics of alumina nanohole patterned media with a soft underlayer measured with a perpendicular magnetic head

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2148-2150

  Oshima, Hirotaka ^a   Kikuchi, Hideyuki ^a   Nakao, Hiroshi ^a   Kamimura, Takuya ^a   Morikawa, Takeshi ^a   Matsumoto, Koji ^a   Yuan, Jianfeng ^b   Ishio, Shunji ^b   Nishio, Kazuyuki ^c,d   Masuda, Hideki ^c,d   Itoh, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nanohole arrays; Patterned media; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Soft magnetic underlayer (SUL)

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOHOLE ARRAYS; PATTERNED MEDIA; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; SOFT MAGNETIC UNDERLAYER (SUL);

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 34249024207     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.893127     Document Type: Article

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