Characterization of head overcoat for 1 Tb/in2 magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 805-809

  Yasui, Nobuto ^a   Inaba, Hiroshi ^a   Furusawa, Kenji ^a   Saito, Masanori ^b   Ohtake, Naoto ^c  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diamond like carbon (DLC); Magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CORROSION RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; WEAR OF MATERIALS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CORROSION AND WEAR RESISTANCE; CRITICAL LOAD; DIAMOND LIKE CARBON; DLC FILM; FILTERED CATHODIC VACUUM ARC; FORMING TECHNOLOGY; SCRATCH TEST; SUBSTRATE MATERIAL;

WEAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 60449095299     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2010636     Document Type: Article

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