Understanding the role of nitrogen in plasma-assisted surface modification of magnetic recording media with and without ultrathin carbon overcoats

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dwivedi, Neeraj ^a   Yeo, Reuben J ^a   Satyanarayana, Nalam ^a   Kundu, Shreya ^a   Tripathy, S ^b   Bhatia, C S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

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EID: 84923093982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07772     Document Type: Article

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