Cross-sectional control of boron contents and the microstructures of Co/Pd multilayer perpendicular magnetic recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2492-2494

  Matsunuma, Satoshi ^a   Yano, Akira ^a   Koda, Tetsunori ^a   Onuma, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yamanaka, Hideaki ^a   Fujita, Enji ^a  

^a HITACHI MAXELL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron; Co Pd multilayers; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Seed layer effect

Indexed keywords

BORON; MICROSTRUCTURE; MULTILAYERS; NUCLEATION; REDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CO-PD MULTILAYERS; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY (MFM); PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; SEED-LAYER EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 4444344563     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.832146     Document Type: Article

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