Recording physics, design considerations, and fabrication of nanoscale bit-patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-476

  Litvinov, Dmitri ^a   Parekh, Vishal ^a   Chunsheng, E ^a   Smith, Darren ^a   Owen Rantschler, James ^a   Ruchhoeft, Paul ^a   Weller, Dieter ^b   Khizroev, Sakhrat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic data storage; Nanomagnetic arrays; Patterned medium; Recording physics

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MAGNETIC STORAGE; OPTICAL DESIGN;

BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; MAGNETIC DATA STORAGE; MAGNETIC MEDIUM; NANO SCALING; NANOMAGNETIC ARRAYS; PATTERNED MEDIUM; RECORDING PHYSICS;

DATA RECORDING;

EID: 48849109174     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.920183     Document Type: Article

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