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I summarize what is currently known about how thermal effects limit the storage capacity of magnetic disk drives. The physics of thermal fluctuations in magnetic materials is treated in some detail, though the essential points are covered in a tutorial manner.
Citation
Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge
Publisher Info
The National Academies Press, Washington, DC
Pub Type
Books
Keywords
anisotropy, Arrhenius-Neel, disk drives, magnetic data storage, magnetic fluctuation noise, superparamagnetism