Synthetic antiferromagnetic soft underlayers for perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2386-2388

  Byeon, S C ^a,b   Misra, A ^a   Doyle, W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Perpendicular recording media; Soft underlayer; Synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) coupling; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COERCIVE FORCE; COOLING; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; REMANENCE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HYSTERESIS LOOPS; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING MEDIA; SOFT UNDERLAYER; SYNTHETIC ANTIFERROMAGNETIC (SAF) COUPLING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 4444361766     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.829260     Document Type: Article

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