Characterization of the Read/Write Process for Magnetic Recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 1071-1076

  Palmer, Dean ^a   Hong, John ^a   Stanek, David ^a   Wood, Roger ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

READBACK DISTORTIONS; READBACK WAVEFORMS; SOFT ERROR RATE (SER); TRANSITION SHIFT PHENOMENON;

DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETISM; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC HEADS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0029271096     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.1995.5680698     Document Type: Article

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