• DocumentCode
    966118
  • Title

    Asperity heights on magnetic tape derived from measured signal dropout lengths

  • Author

    Alstad, J.K. ; Haynes, M.K.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Corporation, Boulder, Colorado
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1978
  • fDate
    9/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    749
  • Lastpage
    751
  • Abstract
    Lengths of threshold-defined signal dropouts were measured for several types of commercial half-inch recording tapes. The results are interpreted by means of a model for the heights and positions of the asperities which cause the dropouts.
  • Keywords
    Magnetic tape recording; Density measurement; Digital recording; Error correction codes; Frequency; Length measurement; Magnetic recording; Manufacturing; Measurement techniques; Probability density function; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.1978.1059808
  • Filename
    1059808