Experimental evidence of domain wall assisted switching in composite media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2166-2168

  Girt, Erol ^a   Dobin, A Yu ^a   Valcu, Bogdan ^a   Richter, H J ^a   Wu, X ^b   Nolan, Tomas P ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetization reversal; Perpendicular media

Indexed keywords

COERCIVE FORCE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SWITCHING;

COMPOSITE MEDIA; PERPENDICULAR MEDIA;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 34249107288     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.894176     Document Type: Article

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