• DocumentCode
    1450117
  • Title

    Effect of Head Field Gradient on Nonlinear Transition Shift in Perpendicular Recording

  • Author

    Li, Shaoping ; Mendez, Hector ; Torabi, Adam F. ; Pan, Tao ; Guan, Lijie ; Mao, Sining

  • Author_Institution
    Western Digital Corp., Fremont, CA, USA
  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    3707
  • Lastpage
    3710
  • Abstract
    A modified test of the fifth harmonic measurement for nonlinear transition shift (NLTS) is used to study the influence of the head field properties on some parametric data and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performances in perpendicular recording. Particularly, the NLTS properties of two different writer head designs were evaluated in connection with their recording performances. It was revealed that the NLTS properties are sensitive to both the head field strength and head field gradient and thus affect the SNR and bit error rate (BER) performances strongly, especially at high linear density.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; harmonic analysis; magnetic heads; perpendicular magnetic recording; BER; bit error rate; fifth harmonic measurement; head field gradient; head field strength; nonlinear transition shift; perpendicular recording; signal-to-noise ratio performances; writer head designs; NLTS; SNR; perpendicular recording (PMR); write head field; write head field gradient;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2009.2024888
  • Filename
    5257149