The physical boundaries to high-density magnetic recording

被引:80
作者
White, RL [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Ctr Res Informat Storage Mat, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
关键词
magnetic recording; granular media; patterned media; thermal stability;
D O I
10.1016/S0304-8853(99)00632-0
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The magnetic memory medium in present disk memories is a continuous film of independently switching single-domain particles. The granularity of the medium produces noise which becomes unacceptable at very small bit sizes. Reducing grain size, which reduces noise, is not possible beyond a critical size because of thermal instability of the magnetization. The consequences of this situation are discussed. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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