First-order reversal curve investigations on the effects of ion implantation in magnetic media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2753-2756

  Gaur, Nikita ^a,b   Piramanayagam, S N ^b   Maurer, S L ^c   Steen, S E ^c   Yang, H ^a   Bhatia, C S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

First order reversal curves (FORC); ion implantation; lateral range; perpendicular magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; FLUENCES; IMPLANTED SPECIES; ION SPECIES; LATERAL RANGE; MAGNETIC MEDIA; MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA; MAGNETOSTATIC INTERACTIONS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PATTERNED MEDIAS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; SWITCHING FIELD;

COBALT; EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; HELIUM; IONS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION;

ION IMPLANTATION;

EID: 84867802040     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2201457     Document Type: Article

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