Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS
Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2020.3040497
Keywords
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); micromagnetic modeling; recording subsystems
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This article presents the system-level requirements for heat-assisted magnetic recording at high areal density, highlighting the importance of spatial SNR, media SNR, reader SNR, and CBD. It discusses the tradeoffs needed to maintain BER as areal density increases, and points out the extremely aggressive geometrical requirements for very high areal density, which may require significant invention in head and drive architecture design.
System-level requirements for heat-assisted magnetic recording at high areal density are presented in this article. The primary factors that affect bit error rate (BER) are spatial, or media, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), reader SNR, and channel bit density (CBD). Spatial SNR is largely determined by the interaction between the writer properties and the media properties. For example, how well the thermal gradient matches the grain size. Spatial SNR also depends on how well the reader cross-track resolution matches the track pitch, and the quality of the written pattern. For any given level of spatial SNR, there exists a combination of CBD and reader SNR that results in the desired level of performance. This article elucidates some of the tradeoffs that may be needed to maintain BER as areal density increases, for different bit aspect ratio scenarios. For very high areal density, we show that the geometrical requirements are extremely aggressive, which will most likely require significant invention in head and drive architecture design.
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