Fabrication and characterization of fept exchange coupled composite and graded bit patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 707-712

  Wang, Hao ^a   Zhao, Haibao ^a   Rahman, Tofizur ^a   Isowaki, Yousuke ^b   Kamata, Yoshiyuki ^b   Maeda, Tomoyuki ^b   Hieda, Hiroyuki ^b   Kikitsu, Akira ^b   Wang, Jian Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bit patterned media; block copolymer lithograph; etching damage; exchange coupled composite media; FePt media; FePt thin films; graded media; switching field distribution

Indexed keywords

BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; EXCHANGE COUPLED COMPOSITE MEDIA; FEPT MEDIA; FEPT THIN FILMS; GRADED MEDIA; SWITCHING FIELD DISTRIBUTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DEPOSITS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84873835494     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2230155     Document Type: Article

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