Writer Footprint Measurement on Spinstand and Media Transition Curvature Characteristics

The head media integration played a very important role to push up the areal density of perpendicular recording successfully. Besides the success of good sensitivity and high resolution reader at desired feature size of recording bit, the advanced writing process is the key enabler to sustain the ar...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on magnetics 2012-05, Vol.48 (5), p.1738-1743
Main Authors: Yuan, Zhi-Min, Ong, Chun Lian, Ang, Shiming, Liu, Bo, Leong, Siang Huei, Zhang, Mingsheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cross-disciplinary physics: materials science
rheology
Exact sciences and technology
Head
Head footprint
Magnetic heads
Magnetic recording
Materials science
Media
Other topics in materials science
perpendicular recording
Physics
Shape
Switches
transition curvature
Writing
writing process
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Summary:The head media integration played a very important role to push up the areal density of perpendicular recording successfully. Besides the success of good sensitivity and high resolution reader at desired feature size of recording bit, the advanced writing process is the key enabler to sustain the areal density growth continuously. The sharper field gradient of writer and the narrower switching field distribution of recording media improve the transition jitter and promote the SNR of recording media. Without reducing grain size, the areal density of perpendicular recording has been increased by a few times. In this work, we investigate the performance of writing process via the measurement of head field footprint in recording media on the Spinstand. The feature size variations of head footprint at different writing current and different flying height (FH) illustrate the effective writing process visually. The transition curvature with transition width value at the trailing edge of writer pole is the key indicator to show the linear density capability related to writing process.
ISSN:0018-9464
1941-0069
DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2011.2174625