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PH 587 Magnetic Recording                           Spring 2007
Syllabus
Schedule :


Lectures 
Doyle - History of Data Storage 1
Doyle - History of Data Storage 2
Doyle - History of Data Storage 3
LeClair - Overview of Magnetic Recording
Butler - Basic Magnetics
LeClair - Field of Head
Butler- Field of Medium

Butler- Write Process

LeClair - Inductive Read

LeClair - Multiple Transitions

LeClair - AMR Sensor

Butler - Giant Magnetoresistance

LeClair - TMR

Doyle - Magnetic Particles for Tape

OOMF Installation

 

 

 

 

Fujiwara- Introduction to Magnetic Recording
Fujiwara- Magnetic Recording (Chapter 2)
Fujiwara- Recording Process
Visscher - Precession and Damping
Movies are QuickTime. Free player downloadable at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/.
Butler - How Information is Stored
Butler - Fluctuation and Dissipation or Noise and Damping
Butler - Shot Noise
Noise References: Johnson Phys. Rev.  Nyquist Phys. Rev.   Johnson+Shot (MIT)
Butler - Noise in Magnetic Sensors (Tutorial by Ed Nowak)
Butler - Media Noise
Butler- Giant Magnetoresistance
Butler- Tunneling Magnetoresistance
Fujiwara - Heads 1 2 3
Harrell - Media 1 
Harrell - Thermal Effects in Magnetic Materials
Harrell - Media Properties 

              
Review - Modern magnetic materials in data storage  R.L. COMSTOCK
Harrell - Some references on magnetic media
Gupta and Wang - MRAM
Doyle - Future Storage Technologies
 

 

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