Reducing the Thermal Asperity Effect in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording System

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In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate and reduce effectively thermal asperity (TA) in the perpendicular recording channels with state trellis. The proposed method comprises of recursively applying a previous noise estimate to a calculation of a current noise estimate to eliminate the effects of TA from the equalized signal. With partial response a maximum-likelihood detector base on partial-response (PR) target with DC-full component can improve the system performance by more than 50% when TA occurs. Unlike previous studies of TA cancellation or suppression, this method is different because we dont use PR targets with non-dc components and high pass filter.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 931-932)

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1260-1264

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May 2014

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