Recording, noise, and servo characteristics of patterned thin film media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2000, Pages 23-29

  Zhu, Jian Gang ^a   Lin Xiangdong, ^a   Guan, Lijie ^a   Messner, William ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medium noise; Patterned media; Position error signal; Thin film media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

FOCUSED ION BEAM ETCHING; MEDIUM NOISE; PATTERNED MEDIA; POSITION ERROR SIGNAL;

MAGNETIC THIN FILMS;

EID: 0033877873     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.824420     Document Type: Article

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