The feasibility of magnetic recording at 1 terabit per square inch

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 36-42

  Wood, Roger ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic recording, media noise; Random grains; Recording limits; Scaling; Voronoi regions

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

RANDOM GRAIN; RECORDING LIMIT; VORONOI REGION;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0033906169     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.824422     Document Type: Article

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