Control of exchange coupling between granular oxide and highly exchange coupled cap layers and the effect on perpendicular magnetic switching and recording characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2694-2700

  Choe, Gunn ^a   Ikeda, Yoshihiro ^a   Zhang, Kezhao ^a   Tang, Kai ^a   Mirzamaani, Mohammad ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange coupled granular media; Exchange coupling; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SWITCHING;

EXCHANGE COUPLING STRENGTH; GRANULAR MEDIA; HIGH-DENSITY RECORDING; INTERFACIAL EXCHANGE COUPLING; MEDIA SIGNAL TO NOISE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA; RECORDING CHARACTERISTICS;

EXCHANGE COUPLING;

EID: 66549126673     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2018644     Document Type: Article

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