Micromagnetic modeling of SNR performance of longitudinal and perpendicular media with various head/SUL combinations

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 2555-2557

  Bai, Daniel Z ^a   Torabi, Adam F ^b   Benakli, Mourad ^b   Mallary, Michael L ^b   Zhu, Jian Gang ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Maxtor Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal recording; Micromagnetic modeling; Monopole head; Perpendicular recording; Ring head; Shielded pole head; SNR; SUL

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GAIN CONTROL; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; MAGNETIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; RING GAGES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LONGITUDINAL RECORDING; MICROMAGNETIC MODELING; MONOPOLE HEAD; PERPENDICULAR RECORDING; RING HEAD; SHIELDED POLE HEAD; SNR; SOFT UNDERLAYER (SUL);

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 4444261058     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.829012     Document Type: Article

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