Exchange coupled composite media

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1799-1809

  Victora, Randall H ^a   Shen, Xiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite media; Exchange coupled composite media; Exchange spring media; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); SWITCHING;

COMPOSITE MEDIA; EXCHANGE COUPLED COMPOSITE MEDIA; EXCHANGE SPRING MEDIA; MICROMAGNETIC MODELS; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; PERPENDICULAR MEDIA; SYNTHETIC ANTIFERROMAGNETS;

SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 57149138039     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2004314     Document Type: Article

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