Writeability enhancement in perpendicular magnetic multilayered oxide media for high areal density recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 55-62

  Choe, Gunn ^a   Park, Jihoon ^a   Ikeda, Yoshihiro ^a   Lengsfield, Byron ^a   Olson, Terry ^a   Zhang, Kezhao ^a   Florez, Sylvia ^a   Ghaderi, Arien ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy grading; multilayered oxides; perpendicular magnetic recording; switching mode

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EXCHANGE COUPLING; GRADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SWITCHING; TEXTURES;

HIGH AREAL DENSITY; INCOHERENT SWITCHING; INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING; MULTILAYERED OXIDE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; RECORDING PERFORMANCE; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SWITCHING MODES;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 78651065387     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2074190     Document Type: Article

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