Planarization of discrete track recording media to improve flyability of magnetic recording sliders

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3527-3530

  Yoon, Y ^a   Choi, C ^a   Oh, Y ^a   Hong, D ^a   Jin, S ^a   Talke, F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete track recording (DTR); Head disk interface; Patterned media; Planarization

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DISCRETE TRACK RECORDING; HEAD DISK INTERFACE; HYDROGEN SILSESQUIOXANE; MAGNETIC RECORDING SLIDERS; NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS; PATTERNED MEDIAS; PLANARIZATION; PLANARIZATION PROCESS;

PHOTOMASKS;

EID: 70350594313     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024764     Document Type: Article

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