Pole-tip protrusion effect on high data rate recording performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2591-2593

  Chekanov, Albert ^a   Weng, Robert ^a   Li, Fred ^a   Park, Dongwon ^a   Yu, Mingjun ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Head disk interactions mapping; Overwrite degradation; Write thermal pole tip protrusion

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; LUBRICANTS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAPPING; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL STRESS;

HEAD-DISK INTERACTIONS MAPPING; OVERWRITE DEGRADATION; THERMAL HEADS; WRITE THERMAL POLE-TIP PROTRUSION;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 4444233254     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.829826     Document Type: Article

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