2 Tbit/in2 reader design outlook

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 697-701

  Chen, Yonghua ^a   Song, Dion ^a   Qiu, Jiaoming ^a   Kolbo, Paul ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   He, Qing ^a   Covington, Mark ^a   Stokes, Scott ^a   Sapozhnikov, Victor ^a   Dimitrov, Dimitar ^a   Gao, Kaizhong ^a   Miller, Bradley ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant magnetoresistance; Magnetic heads; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC HEADS; OXIDE MINERALS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

BIT DENSITY; BIT LENGTHS; SIDE SHIELD; TRI LAYERS; TUNNELING GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79955394258     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2041040     Document Type: Article

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