Theory of Magnetic Recording [Paperback]

H. Neal Bertram (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 29, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0521449731 | ISBN-13: 978-0521449731

This book is designed to give the student a fundamental, in-depth understanding of all the essential features of the magnetic recording process for both high density disk and tape recording. The book provides a thorough grounding in four basic areas of magnetic recording: structure and fields of heads and media, the replay process, the recording process, and medium noise analysis. Besides the fundamental issues, key systems questions of nonlinearities, overwrite, side track phenomena, error rate estimates as well as comparisons of MR and inductive heads will be discussed. The student will be able to use the information presented to design and analyze key experiments for head and medium evaluation as well as for overall system performance decisions. A parallel treatment of time and frequency response will enable the student to evaluate signal processing schemes. The book is intended either for senior-year undergraduates or first-year graduates. It assumes that the reader has had basic introductory electrical engineering or physics courses such as electricity and magnetism and applied mathematics.

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'very well written ... a very welcome piece of work and can be seen as a significant addition to our reading lists.' Cock Lodder, Read/Write

'The book is a good link between fundamentals of magnetism and electricity and their technical realizations in the field of magnetic recording ... of special value to research-and-development scientists in the magnetic recording industry and includes a plenty of recent references in this field.' Contemporary Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz

Book Description

This textbook provides a thorough background in the structure and fields of heads and media, the replay process, the recording process and medium noise analysis. It is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the essential features of the magnetic recording process for high density disk and tape recording.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 29, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521449731
• ISBN-13: 978-0521449731
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,549,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Book for the Serious, January 17, 2002

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Ed Williams (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Theory of Magnetic Recording (Paperback)

This book should be on the bookshelf of every serious worker in magnetic recording. While there are numerous introductory texts on magnetic recording, Bertram gives the reader in-depth treatments of transition models, non-linear bit shift, non-linear amplitude loss, and overwrite that are based on very clear models of the recording process and lead to useful back-of-the-envelope expressions that are readily compared with experiment. His discussions of medium noise mechanisms (such as fluctuations or jitter in transition position and slope in thin film media) are unexcelled. The level of mathematics assumes a good preparation at the college senior or graudate level. It would be great to have a second edition of this book such that a number of typos and errors could be cleared up.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very profound, and In-depth, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Theory of Magnetic Recording (Paperback)

The book covers fundamental principles in magnetic recording. It has rich content and inspiring discussion that reflect the author's subtle understanding and experience in the field. A must for pro's in magnetic recording.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not for Everyone, January 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Theory of Magnetic Recording (Paperback)

I think Bertram's book needs to be more explanatory in nature for the maths and physics, not everybody has the mathematical and physics background to read the book, especially for engineers. I have written somewhere else that unless you have solid understanding in undergraduate and graduate engineering electromagnetic theory, this book is very hard to understand. It is a killer. Since I have not understood it, I give this book low rating. But I bet that as I understand the book better, the book rating will go up.