Hard bias effect on magnetic noise in different types of tunnel magnetoresistive heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3597-3600

  Han, G C ^a   Zong, B Y ^a   Luo, P ^a   Wang, L ^a   Guo, Z B ^a   Mao, S N ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

FMR; Hard bias; Magnetic noise; TMR heads

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STIFFNESS;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE (FMR); HARD BIAS; HEAD STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC NOISE; MAGNETORESISTIVE; MAGNETORESISTIVE HEADS; THERMALLY ACTIVATED; TMR HEAD;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 70350611946     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2001647     Document Type: Article

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