Paper Reference Material:

Textbook:

A.S. Hoagland and J.E. Monson, Digital Magnetic Recording, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

Good References:

Ashar, Magnetic Disk Drive Technology, IEEE Press, 1996.

C. Denis Mee and Eric D. Daniel, Magnetic Recording, McGraw Hill Book Co., 1987.

John Mallinson, Magneto-Resistive Heads, Academic Press, 1996.

Background on Magnetism:

Charles Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, Seventh Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1996. Chapter 15.

Source of Original Papers:

Robert M. White, Introduction to Magnetic Recording, IEEE Press, 1985.

Good Collection of Articles:

High Density Digital Recording, Edited by: K.H.J. Buschow, G.J. Long, & and F. Grandjean, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993.
 

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