Demonstration and characterization of 130 Gb/in2 magnetic recording systems

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 10 2, 2003, Pages 6552-6554

  Stoev, K ^a   Liu, F ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Dang, X ^a   Luo, P ^a   Chen, J ^a   Wang, J ^a   Kung, K ^a   Lederman, M ^a   Re, M ^a   Choe, G ^b   Zhou, J N ^b   Yu, M ^b  

^a WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BIT ERROR RATE; DATA RECORDING; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DATA RATES; POLE TRIMMINGS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0037977790     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1540138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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