Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
1 Introduction 1S. N. Piramanayagam
2 Fundamentals of Magnetism 10Shiva Prasad and S. N. Piramanayagam
3 Longitudinal Recording Media 33S. N. Piramanayagam
4 Perpendicular Recording Media 52Kumar Srinivasan and S. N. Piramanayagam
5 Write Heads: Fundamentals 78Naoki Honda and Kiyoshi Yamakawa
6 Magnetoresistive Read Heads: Fundamentals and Functionality 97Rachid Sbiaa
7 Read Sensors for Greater Than 1 Tb/in.2 127Guchang Han, Viloane Ko, Zaibing Guo, and Hao Meng
8 Thin-Film Media Lubricants: Structure, Characterization, and Performance 144Bruno Marchon
9 Overcoat Materials for Magnetic Recording Media 167Allen Poh Wei Choong, S. N. Piramanayagam, and Thomas Y. F. Liew
10 Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording 193Ganping Ju, William Challener, Yingguo Peng, Mike Seigler, and Ed Gage
11 L10 FePt for Magnetic Recording Media Application 223Jiangfeng Hu, Jingsheng Chen, and Ganping Ju
12 Patterned Magnetic Recording Media: Progress and Prospects 256Thomas Thomson and Bruce D. Terris
13 Phase Change Random Access Memory 277Luping Shi, Rong Zhao, and Tow C. Chong
14 Nonvolatile Solid-State Magnetic Memory 297Randall Law Yaozhang and Sunny Y. H. Lua
Index 326