• DocumentCode
    845387
  • Title

    Narrow-gap single-pole heads

  • Author

    Litvinov, Dmitri ; Wolfson, Jason ; Bain, James A. ; Gustafson, Roy W. ; Kryder, Mark H. ; Khizroev, Sakhrat

  • Author_Institution
    Seagate Res., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    9/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2253
  • Lastpage
    2255
  • Abstract
    This work addresses the recording physics of narrow-gap single-pole heads (SPH) in perpendicular recording. It is found that narrow-gap SPHs have reduced sensitivity with respect to nonzero skew angles. It is shown that while the efficiency of a narrow-gap SPH is generally reduced, even for the case of a gapless SPH, the efficiency differs from the efficiency of a 1-μm-thick gap SPH only by a factor of two. The design parameter space for a narrow-gap SPH is investigated.
  • Keywords
    magnetic heads; perpendicular magnetic recording; design parameter space; efficiency; narrow-gap single-pole head; perpendicular magnetic recording; skew angle sensitivity; Data storage systems; Delay; Guidelines; Magnetic circuits; Magnetic flux; Magnetic heads; Magnetic recording; Perpendicular magnetic recording; Physics; Space technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2002.802780
  • Filename
    1042153