Magnetic properties to optimize the Ku2 effect in perpendicular recording media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2387-2389

  Kitakami, Osamu ^a   Okamoto, Satoshi ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Sadavuki ^a,b   Aoi, Hajime ^a   Muraoka, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamura, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJI ELECTRIC CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

anisotropy energy term; Energy barrier; grain volume; perpendicular recording media; saturation field; second order uniaxial magnetic; thermal stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055133     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878668     Document Type: Article

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