Friday, March 16, 2012

1203.3340 (M. L. Plumer et al.)

Micromagnetic simulations of sweep-rate dependent coercivity in
perpendicular recording media
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M. L. Plumer, M. D. Leblanc, J. P. Whitehead, J. van Ek
The results of micromagnetic simulations are presented which examine the impact of thermal fluctuations on sweep rate dependent coercivities of both single-layer and exchange-coupled-composite (ECC) perpendicular magnetic recording media. M-H loops are calculated at four temperatures and sweep rates spanning five decades with fields applied normal to the plane and at 45 degrees. The impact of interactions between grains is evaluated. The results indicate a significantly weaker sweep-rate dependence for ECC media suggesting more robustness to long-term thermal effects. Fitting the modeled results to Sharrock-like scaling proposed by Feng and Visscher [J. Appl. Phys. 95, 7043 (2004)] is successful only in the case of single-layer media with the field normal to the plane.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3340

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