Integrated heat assisted magnetic recording head: Design and recording demonstration

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-124

  Seigler, Michael A ^a   Challener, William A ^a   Gage, Edward ^a   Gokemeijer, Nils ^a   Ju, Ganping ^a   Lu, Bin ^a   Pelhos, Kalman ^a   Peng, Chubing ^a   Rottmayer, Robert E ^a   Yang, Xiaomin ^a   Zhou, Hua ^a   Rausch, Tim ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); Magnetic recording; Recording head

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AREAL DENSITY; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING (HAMR); RECORDING HEAD;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 37249029940     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.911029     Document Type: Article

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