Theory of Magnetic Recording (Paperback)

by H. Neal Bertram (Author) "Magnetic recording is the central technology of information storage..." (more)
Key Phrases: replay voltage, square wave recording, long pole head, Problems Problem (more...)

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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

Product Description
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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Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 29, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521449731
• ISBN-13: 978-0521449731
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 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.com Sales Rank: #1,412,656 in Books (See Bestsellers 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

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

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

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.

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

By A Customer

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.