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Magnetic Data Storage

Tilting for the top

Nature Materials volume 4, pages 191–192 (2005)Cite this article

The performance of conventional longitudinal and perpendicular magnetic recording media will soon reach their limits. The use of tilted media should allow unprecedented storage densities, thermal stability and fast switching speeds.

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Figure 1: Tilted magnetic media.

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