Optimal track-width design of AMR/GMR heads for high-track-density disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1967-1969

  Tomiyama, Futoshi ^a   Ide, Hiroshi ^a   Hamaguchi, Takehiko ^a   Takano, Hisashi ^a   Yamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Kodama, Naoki ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optimal track width; Positioning accuracy; Soft error rate; Tolerance; Track density

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747909493     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706759     Document Type: Article

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