1997 MINT Research Review

Monday, October 6, 1997 Room 3-180, EE/CSci Building University of Minnesota The 13th MINT research review is open to MINT members and invited guests and will showcase the research activities of MINT and CDSLab faculty and graduate students. For more information, please contact Prof. Jack Judy at 612-625-7381 or judy@ece.umn.edu. 8:30-10:00 A.M. -- Thin Film Media, Heads, and Tribology Overview of research activities, Prof. Jack Judy Study of time decay of Mr of ultra-high density recording thin film media, Dehua Han Comparison of time decay between keepered and nonkeepered thin film media, Jinghuan Chen Calculated effect of grain size distribution on time decay of thin film media, Cheng Yang Magnetic behavior of RF sputtered NiFe/NiO bilayers, Zhenghong Qian Saturation magnetostriction of Co/NiFe and NiFe/Co RF sputtered bilayers, Prof. Jack Sivertsen 10:30-12:00 P.M. -- Signal Processing for Data Storage Overview of research activities, Prof. Jay Moon Error propagation in 3D-110 and FDTS/DF detection channels, Barrett Brickner Low cost MLSD via signal space partitioning, Younggyun Kim Asynchronous channels, Travis Oenning High speed BiCMOS circuits for read channels: Equalizer, detector, and timing recovery, Prof. Ramesh Harjani What is the optimal bit aspect ratio?, Prof. Jay Moon 12:00-2:00 P.M. -- Lunch and Poster Presentations Time decay of Mr, Hc, and readback signal of ultra-thin CoCrTa(Pt)/Cr media, Hiroyuki Uwazumi Effect of stress on Hex, Hc, and Hk fields of FeMn/NiFe GMR spin valves, Dehua Han Stress effect on the magnetic properties of NiFe/FeMn and NiMn GMR spin valves, Eric Linville Nano-hardness of facing target sputtered ultra-thin C and CN films, Zhenghong Qian Evaluation of amorphous CN and protective wear coatings on media and sliders, Prof. Jack Sivertsen Comparison of error distribution statistics in PRML and DFE, Jin Li Spectral characterization of transition noise, Wenzhong Zhu 2:00-4:00 P.M. -- Lab Demos, Wine & Cheese (EE/CSci6-146) EE/CSci 6-158 -- Communications and Data Storage Lab EE/CSci 6-142 -- MFM imaging magnetization clusters in ultra-thin CoCrTa/Cr thin film media EE/CSci 6-140 -- Recording performance and time decay of keepered thin film media EE/CSci 6-138 -- VSM measurement of temperature dependence of coercivity of thin film media EE/CSci 6-138 -- Measurement stress effect on RF sputtered NiFe/NiO and NiFe/FeMn spin valves EE/CSci 5-166 -- Ultra-high vacuum (UHV) multi target DC magnetron Co sputtering system

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