HAMR recording limitations and extendibility

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 686-692

  Wang, Xiaobin ^a   Gao, Kaizhong ^a   Zhou, Hua ^a   Itagi, Amit ^a   Seigler, Mike ^a   Gage, Edward ^a  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat assisted magnetic recording; near field optics; saturation; switching field distribution; thermal spot size

Indexed keywords

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; GRAIN SIZE; HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; NEAR FIELD OPTICS; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; RECORDING DENSITY; SPOT SIZES; SWITCHING FIELD DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL SPOTS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84873863064     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2221689     Document Type: Article

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