Dependence of switching fields on island shape in bit patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3531-3534

  Kalezhi, Josephat ^a,b   Miles, Jim J ^a   Belle, Branson D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Lulea University of Technology   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Bit patterned media (BPM); Magnetic recording; Magnetometric demagnetizing factors; Shape demagnetizing factors; Switching field distribution (SFD)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ASPECT RATIO; CONES; DIGITAL STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM;

ADJACENT TRACK ERASURE; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA (BPM); DEMAGNETIZING FACTORS; MAGNETOMETRIC DEMAGNETIZING FACTORS; MICROMAGNETIC MODELING; MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS; SWITCHING FIELD DISTRIBUTION;

SWITCHING;

EID: 70350589606     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2022407     Document Type: Article

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