A resonant switching write driver for magnetic recording

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-269

  Reay, Richard J ^a,b   Klaassen, Klaas B ^a   Nomura, Calvin S ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LINEAR TECHNOLOGY CORP   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistor amplifiers; Digital recording; Disk drives; Integrated circuit design

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MAGNETIC HEADS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

WRITE DRIVER CIRCUITS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0031079421     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.551921     Document Type: Article

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