Challenges for perpendicular write heads at high recording density

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 605-608

  Hsu, Yimin ^a   Nikitin, Vladimir ^a   Hsiao, David ^a   Chen, Jianping ^a   Zheng, Yi ^a   Pentek, Aron ^a   Loo, Jennifer ^a   Jiang, Ming ^a   Yuan, Samuel ^a   Alex, Michael ^a   Luo, Yansheng ^a   Salo, Michael ^a   Okada, Tomohiro ^a   Maruyama, Youji ^a   Mitsuoka, Katsuya ^a  

^a SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Perpendicular magnetic recording; Test and characterization; Write heads

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

MAGNETIC SPACING; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING; WRAPPED AROUND SHIELD (WAS); WRITE HEADS;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 33846577813     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888199     Document Type: Article

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