Thermally excited low frequency magnetic noise in CPP structure MR heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2187-2192

  Zhou, Yuchen ^a  

^a Headway Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Current perpendicular to plane (CPP); Hard bias (HB); Thermal excitation; Tunneling magneto resistive (TMR)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE (CPP); HARD BIAS (HB); THERMAL EXCITATION; TUNNELING-MAGNETO-RESISTIVE (TMR);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 34249097055     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.892641     Document Type: Article

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