Cobalt Oxalate Formation on Thin-Film Magnetic Recording Media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2507-2509

  Karis, T E ^a   Raman, V ^a   Hsiao, Y L ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobalt alloys; corrosion; disk drives; disks; magnetic disk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055302     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.878629     Document Type: Article

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