High density recording with single pole head.

Low-Resistance Spin-Dependent Tunnel Junctions With HfAlOx Barriers for High-Density Recording-Head Application

Spin-dependent tunnel junctions with the structure (Ta 70 Å/NiFe 70 Å/MnIr 80 Å/CoFe 35 Å/HfAlO /CoFe 35 Å/NiFe 40 Å/TiW(N) 150 Å) were fabricated on top of 600-Å-thick ion-beam-smoothed low-resistance Al electrodes. HfAlO barriers were formed by natural oxidation (5 min at 1 torr in pure O2) of 5-Å-thick (2-Å Hf + 3-Å Al) films or 6-Å-thick (2-Å Hf + 4-Å Al) films. Resistance area (R A) produc...

Large-scale Recording from Axonal Arbors of Single Neurons with Cmos Based High-density Microelectrode Arrays

We report on the identification and tracking of the electrical activity of processes of single neurons. With a newly designed complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) based integrated highdensity microelectrode array (HD-MEA) [1,2], we were able to simultaneously use more than 1000 electrodes and low-noise readout channels to monitor electrophysiological signals of many individual branche...

High Density Pcm Magnetic Tape Recording

The Bell & Howell Enhanced-NRZ recording reproducing technique for bit packing densities up to 40,000 per track inch is described in this paper. Utilization of the pulse code modulation format of Enhanced-NRZ achieves this high density with a bit error rate of one in ten million. Bell & Howell’s standard VR-3700B instrumentation tape recorder and wideband instrumentation recording tape are used...

CoPtCr:C nanocomposite films for high density recording

Reduced-Complexity Turbo Equalization for High-Density Magnetic Recording Systems

This paper considers a decision-feedback-equalizer (DFE)-based soft decision detector as an alternative for the Bahl–Cocke–Jelinek–Raviv (BCJR) front-end for a coded magnetic recording channel. In previous work, a bidirectional-arbitrated DFE (BAD) was shown to perform in between a BCJR detector and a minimum mean-square error DFE. We propose a soft-output BAD (S-BAD) which takes advantage of t...