Overview of fly height control applications in perpendicular magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 709-714

  Tang, Yawshing ^a   Hong, Soo Youl ^a   Kim, Na Young ^a   Che, Xiaodong ^a  

^a SAMSUNG INFORMATION SYSTEMS AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fly height control; Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR); Touchdown detection; Wallace equation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTRIC HEATING ELEMENTS; ERROR DETECTION; MAGNETIC HEADS;

FLY HEIGHT CONTROL; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING (PMR); TOUCHDOWN DETECTION; WALLACE EQUATIONS;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 33846594336     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.888363     Document Type: Article

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