Si-doping of Co/Pd multilayers for improved signal to noise in perpendicular magnetic recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2476-2479

  Qi, Xiaoyuan ^a   Stadler, Bethanie J H ^a   Victora, R H ^a   Judy, J H ^a   Hellwig, O ^b,c   Supper, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

^c In House Research/Experimente   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co Pd multilayers; ITO seed layers; Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR); Si doping

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIT ERROR RATE; COERCIVE FORCE; DIFFUSION; GRAIN GROWTH; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MULTILAYERS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY SCATTERING;

CO/PD MULTILAYERS; ITO SEED LAYERS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING (PMR); SI DOPING;

MAGNETIC FILMS;

EID: 4444318711     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.830430     Document Type: Article

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