Theory of Magnetic Recording Review

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(More customer 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.

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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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