Characterization of oxide materials for exchange decoupling in perpendicular thin film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2260-2263

  Sokalski, Vincent M ^a   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a   Laughlin, David E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergranular exchange coupling; Perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING ELEMENTS; BINARY ALLOYS; COERCIVE FORCE; EXCHANGE COUPLING; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS;

EXCHANGE DECOUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; INTER-GRANULAR EXCHANGE COUPLINGS; INTERLAYER THICKNESS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA; THIN OXIDE INTERLAYERS;

COBALT ALLOYS;

EID: 77952808904     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2040814     Document Type: Article

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