Patterned media for 10 Tb/in2 utilizing dual-section "ledge" elements

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3454-3459

  Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a,b   Li, Shaojing ^a,b   Livshitz, Boris ^a,b   Inomata, Akihiro ^c   Bertram, H Neal ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^d HITACHI AMERICA LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

Landau Lifshitz equation; Patterned media; Perpendicular recording; Precessional reversal

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY;

LANDAU LIFSHITZ EQUATION; MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM; PATTERNED ELEMENTS; PATTERNED MEDIAS; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; PRECESSIONAL REVERSAL; PRECESSIONAL SWITCHING; REVERSAL MECHANISM;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 65249135747     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001615     Document Type: Article

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