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It gives us great pleasure to present this book on the developments in data storage, from a
materials perspective. This book has been designed to help the final year undergraduate and
graduate students of physics, materials science, chemistry, electrical engineering, and other
disciplines with an interest in the magnetic recording or other emerging alternative storage
technologies. This book will also help new engineers as well as professionals in the recording
industry to broaden their knowledge and serve as a useful reference.
It has been quite some time since a book on data storage was released and since then
there have been several developments. The hard disk industry has moved from longitudinal
recording technology to perpendicular recording. Even though the hard disk technology is
more than 50â•›years old, the storage density of the hard disk drives has been increasing at a
rate of about 30% per year. As of 2010, all the hard disk products are based on perpendicular
recording technology. It is believed that some alternatives, such as heat-assisted magnetic
recording or patterned media technology, are needed to maintain the growth of storage
density which will enable the hard disk industry to maintain its superiority over competing
technologies. Such growth has been (and will continue to be) brought on by various technological
developments. We thought there was a need to condense these developments into
a book that will benefit the readers for the next several years. With this aim, we requested
several researchers from different backgrounds to write on the developments in their respective
field. However, the book would not be complete if it did not provide the background
information for a novice. With that in mind, we have also included some chapters that
introduce the fundamentals. |
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