Semi-analytical approach for analysis of BER in conventional and staggered bit patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3519-3522

  Livshitz, Boris ^a,b   Inomata, Akihiro ^c   Bertram, H Neal ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^d SAN JOSE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Magnetic recording; Patterned media

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RECORDING;

BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA (BPM); ELEMENT ARRAY; MICROMAGNETIC CALCULATIONS; PATTERNED MEDIAS; REVERSAL SURFACE; SEMI-ANALYTICAL APPROACHES;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 70350577032     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2022501     Document Type: Article

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