A novel approach of carbon embedding in magnetic media for future head/disk interface

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1807-1812

  Abdul Samad, Mohammed ^a   Xiong, Shaomin ^b   Pan, Liang ^b   Yang, Hyunsoo ^a   Sinha, Sujeet Kumar ^a   Bogy, David B ^b   Bhatia, Charanjit Singh ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon embedding; FCVA; FePt; magnetic media

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BINARY ALLOYS; CARBON; EMBEDDINGS; FRICTION; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; PLATINUM ALLOYS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON EMBEDDING; CONDUCTIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FCVA; FEPT; FILTERED CATHODIC VACUUM ARC TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC MEDIA; SURFACE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; SURFACE MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

IRON METALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860434769     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2170826     Document Type: Article

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