Evaluating track-following servo performance of high-density hard disk drives using patterned media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5352-5359

  Han, Younghee ^a   De Callafon, Raymond A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit patterned media; Hard disk drive; Position error signal; Servo patterns

Indexed keywords

BIT-PATTERNED MEDIA; CLOSED-LOOP; DECODING SCHEME; DIFFERENTIAL FREQUENCY; HARD DISK DRIVE; HARD DISK DRIVES; HIGH-DENSITY; MAGNETIC HARD DISKS; NON-LINEARITY; PATTERNED MEDIAS; POSITION ERROR SIGNALS; RECORDING DENSITY; SERVO PATTERN; SERVO PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL SAMPLING; SIMULATION TOOL; TRACK DENSITY; TRANSITION JITTERS; ULTRAHIGH DENSITY;

DRIVES; JITTER; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; QUALITY CONTROL;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 70450267502     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2025035     Document Type: Article

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