Millipede - A MEMS-based scanning-probe data-storage system

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 938-945

  Eleftheriou, E ^a   Antonakopoulos, T ^a,b   Binnig, G K ^a   Cherubini, G ^a   Despont, M ^a   Dholakia, A ^a   Durig U ^a   Lantz, M A ^a   Pozidis, H ^a   Rothuizen, H E ^a   Vettiger, P ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; High density data storage system; MEMS; Modulation coding; Probe storage; Servo control; Thermomechanical write read erase; Time recovery

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; SERVOMECHANISMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); SYNCHRONIZATION;

HIGH-DENSITY DATA-STORAGE SYSTEM; MODULATION CODING; PROBE STORAGE; THERMOMECHANICAL WRITE-READ-ERASE; TIMING RECOVERY;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0037360868     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.808953     Document Type: Article

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