4.4 Article Proceedings Paper

29.5-Gb/in(2) Recording Areal Density on Barium Ferrite Tape

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS
Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 137-147

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2076797

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Magnetic recording; magnetic tape recording; signal detection; tracking

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The recording performance of a new magnetic tape based on ultra-fine, perpendicularly-oriented BaFe particles was investigated. Specifically, using a low lateral tape motion demonstration platform, a new servo pattern written on the advanced perpendicularly oriented BaFe medium, a new low friction head technology, a novel synchronous servo channel design, and advanced servo control concepts, we were able to demonstrate a record closed-loop track-follow performance with a 23.4 nm standard deviation of position-error signal, roughly one order of magnitude better than in current tape products. In addition, using read back waveforms captured on the same advanced perpendicularly oriented BaFe medium with a 0.2-mu m-wide data reader, we demonstrated write/read performance at 518 kbpi using advanced noise-predictive maximum likelihood (NPML) detection schemes. Combining these two results, we estimate that the new medium can support an areal recording density of up to 29.5 Gb/in(2). This result demonstrates the scalability and extendability of tape technology using low-cost particulate media.

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