CoCrPtO-based granular composite perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2088-2091

  Jung, H S ^a   Velu, E M T ^a   Malhotra, S S ^a   Kwon, U ^b   Suess, D ^c   Bertero, G ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Composite media; Exchange coupling; Magnetic reversal activation volume; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; EXCHANGE COUPLING; GRANULAR MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

CAPPING LAYERS; COMPOSITE MEDIA; MAGNETIC REVERSAL ACTIVATION VOLUME; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 34249040187     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.892859     Document Type: Article

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