Some of the most relevant finite-size and surface effects in the magnetic and transport
properties of magnetic fine particles and granular solids are reviewed. The stability of the …

The increasing information density in magnetic recording, the miniaturization in magnetic
sensor technology, the trend towards nanocrystalline magnetic materials and the improved …

Perfect crystals are rare in nature. Real materials often contain crystal defects and chemical
order/disorder such as grain boundaries, dislocations, interfaces, surface reconstructions …

In this paper, we present a novel mechanism for recording at a head held significantly below
the medium coercivity in a perpendicular recording geometry. By applying a localized ac …

A cubic discretization procedure of the micromagnetic energy functional is used to carry out
numerical studies of the magnetization process in ferromagnetic cubes. Equilibrium …

In this book, 17 experts in magnetic recording focus on the underlying physical mechanisms
that play crucial roles in medium and transducer development for high areal density disk …

The authors examine the requirements for 10 Gb/in/sup 2/media, taking guidance from a
recording model and known trends in high-performance media. They apply a read/write …

The fidelity of magnetic recording materials (whether they be synthetic crystals on a
recording tape, or natural crystals in rocks recording changes in the Earth's magnetic field) …

Rapid advances in recording materials, read/write heads, and mechanical designs over the
last 15 years have led to the need for more complicated signal processing, coding, and …

This paper reviews recent progress in atom probe field ion microscopy (APFIM) and its
applications to nanoscale microstructural studies of metallic materials. By employing a three …