This presentation describes the corrosion process in longitudinal and perpendicular recording media, based upon electron and scanning probe microscopic analysis.

Magnetic media were synthesized and scanning probe and scanning elctron microscopy were performed at the Maxtor, Inc. San Jose, CA facility (now closed). Transmission electron microscopy was undertaken at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Brian Demczyk (2013), "Corrosion Mechanisms in Magnetic Recording Media," https://nanohub.org/resources/19028.

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1. corrosion
2. EDS
3. magnetic recording media
4. roughness measurement
5. scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
6. scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
7. transmission electron microscopy (TEM)