Tunneling magnetoresistive heads for magnetic data storage

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Mao, Sining ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal Density; Electrostatic Discharge; Hard Disk Drives; Longitudinal Recording; Magnetic Tunnel Junctions; Perpendicular Recording; Reliability; Signal to Noise Ratio; Tunneling Magnetoresistive Heads

Indexed keywords

AREAL DENSITY (AD); DEGREE OF FREEDOM (DOF); FAST GROWTH; HARD DISK DRIVES (HDDS); MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION (MTJ); MAGNETIC TUNNELING; NANOTECHNOLOGIES; NEW FORMS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENON; SPIN DEPENDENT TUNNELING; SPINTRONICS; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTIVE (TMR);

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EXCAVATION; HARD DISK STORAGE; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SPIN DYNAMICS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

COMPUTER; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REVIEW;

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; COMPUTERS; ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34447324704     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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