Read Back Signals in Magnetic Recording - Research Group Fidler
Read Back Signals in Magnetic Recording - Research Group Fidler
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Numerical Methods<br />
Figure 4.2: The left figure shows a set of 10 nodes after renumber<strong>in</strong>g and the cluster<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
The right figure shows the associated boundary matrix structure. The large off-diagonal<br />
blocks, correspond<strong>in</strong>g to far field <strong>in</strong>teractions of two clusters, can be approximated by lowrank<br />
matrices [25].<br />
4.4 Conductor Model<br />
The sense current through the MR sensor generates a magnetic field, which has to be taken<br />
<strong>in</strong>to account. The current is even used for bias<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> AMR heads (see Section 6.1.2).<br />
Therefore the sense current cannot be neglected.<br />
So we have a conductor model <strong>in</strong> addition to the magnetic model. As there are materials<br />
which are magnetic and conductive these two models can overlap. The current model consists<br />
of materials with different conductivities and magnetoresistive effects as described <strong>in</strong> Section<br />
2.8. So the current density must be assumed as function of locus and as function of<br />
magnetization.<br />
σ=σrM (, )<br />
(4.39)<br />
Aga<strong>in</strong> we use a tetrahedral mesh and the F<strong>in</strong>ite Element Method to calculate the electric<br />
potential and further the current distribution.<br />
4.4.1 Conductivity<br />
In case of non-magnetoresistive materials we have constant conductivities. In<br />
magnetoresistive materials, however, the conductivity has to be evaluated from the<br />
magnetization (see (2.50) or (2.51)). To specify conductivity and magnetoresistance there are<br />
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