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The Foundations of Magnetic Recording

  • 2nd Edition - March 31, 1993
  • Latest edition
  • Author: John C. Mallinson
  • Language: English

This expanded and updated new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of magnetic recording. In the six years since the publication of the first… Read more

Description

This expanded and updated new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of magnetic recording. In the six years since the publication of the first edition, the magnetic recording and storage industry has burgeoned with the introduction of a host of new ideas and technologies. His book contains a discussion of almost every technologically important aspect of recording.

Key features

  • Continas complete coverage of the current technology of magnetic recording and storage
  • Written in a non-mathematical but scientifically accurate style
  • Permits intelligent evaluations to be made of both the past evolution and the future trends in a wide variety of magnetic storage devices

Readership

AUDIENCE: Researchers and development engineers (as well as senior technicians and junior engineers) working in the magnetic recording industry, senior undergraduate and graduate level students in physics, applied physics, or electrical engineering, other technical professional (such as manufacturing engineers and studio engineers) in the magnetic recording, computer peripheral, music, and video recording industries.

Table of contents

B, H, And M Fields, Magnetism and Measurements. Hysteresis Loops, Multi- And Single-Domain and Super-Paramagnetic Behavior. Magnetic Recording Media. Magnetic Recording Head Theory. Magnetic Recording Head Designs. The Writing, Or Recording, Process. The Reading, Or Reproducing, Process. Noise Processes and Signal-To-Noise Ratios. Audio and Instrumentation Recorders. Analog Video Recorders. Digital Recording Theory. Digital Recorders. The Evolution of Channel Codes. Limits of Longitudinal Recording. Optical Recording Technologists. Appendix: Magnetic Properties in Cgs-Emu and SI Units. Index.

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 31, 1993
  • Language: English

About the author

JM

John C. Mallinson

Affiliations and expertise
Mallinson Magnetics, Inc., California, U.S.A.

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