Magnetic spacing trends: From LMR to PMR and beyond

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3608-3611

  Marchon, Bruno ^a   Olson, Terry ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head disk interface; Magnetic recording; Magnetic spacing

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DIGITAL STORAGE; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETIC RECORDING;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; MAGNETIC SPACINGS; MAGNETORESISTIVE; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; TECHNOLOGY CHANGE; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTIVE HEADS (TMR);

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 70350589444     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2023624     Document Type: Article

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