A model for mark size dependence on field emission voltage in heat-assisted magnetic probe recording on CoNi/Pt multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2549-2551

  Zhang, Li ^a   Bain, James A ^a   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a   Abelmann, Leon ^b   Onoue, Takahiro ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Field emission; High density recording; Prolate spheroidal coordinates; Scanning tunneling microscope

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC STORAGE; PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SIZE DETERMINATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

FIELD EMISSION; HIGH-DENSITY RECORDING; PROLATE SPHEROIDAL COORDINATES;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 4444258528     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.830220     Document Type: Article

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