Magnetic cluster size knee analysis for small grain continuous media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3185-3187

  Ikeda, Yoshihiro ^a   Florez, Sylvia H ^a   Zhu, Frank Q ^a   Takano, Kentaro ^a   Do, Hoa ^a   Hennen, Tyler ^a   Terris, Bruce D ^a  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Inter granular exchange coupling; intrinsic switching field distribution (iSFD); magnetic cluster size; perpendicular media; small grain

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SIZES; CONTINUOUS MEDIA; EXCHANGE COUPLED MEDIA; EXCHANGE MEDIA; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH-DENSITY RECORDING; MAGNETIC CLUSTER SIZE; PERPENDICULAR MEDIA; SMALL GRAINS; SWITCHING FIELD DISTRIBUTION;

EXCHANGE COUPLING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

REDUCTION;

EID: 84867803182     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2196267     Document Type: Article

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