A simulation of magnetic recording on coarsely granular media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 5 PART 1, 1999, Pages 2253-2255

  Hurley, Gavin ^a   Arnoldussen, Tom ^b   Wood, Roger ^b   Cheng, David ^b   Williams, Mason ^b   Wood, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic recording; Media noise; Random grains; Recording limits; Voronoi regions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GRAIN GROWTH; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COARSELY GRANULAR MEDIA; MAGNETIC GRAINS; VORONOI REGIONS;

MAGNETIC STORAGE;

EID: 0033184368     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.800790     Document Type: Article

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