Understanding sources of errors in bit-patterned media to improve read channel performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 11 PART 2, 2008, Pages 3797-3800

  Nutter, Paul W ^a   Shi, Yuanjing ^a   Belle, Branson D ^a   Miles, Jim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bit patterned media; Jitter; Magnetic recording; Noise; Trellis; Viterbi

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RECORDING;

BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; NOISE; READ CHANNELS; SIZE AND POSITION; SOURCE OF NOISE; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TRELLIS; VITERBI;

JITTER;

EID: 70350609840     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2002516     Document Type: Article

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