email: pbrown@plymouth.ac.uk
	Currently involved in building a scanning laser microscope to image magnetic behaviour in films and devices. MPhil Thesis: An investigation of a writing and reading thin-film multi-track magnetic tape head. Email: nfry@plymouth.ac.uk

Visiting Professors

• Prof. J.C. Mallinson : Magnetic Recording

Visiting Scientists

• Dr. Anna Radkovskaya : Giant Magneto Impedance of magnetic microwires
• Ms. Keiko Takeuchi (Japan) : Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
• Dr. T. Yamamoto (Japan) : Magneto-optic microscope for video heads
• Dr. Y. Okamoto (Japan) : PRML data channel (Japan)
• Dr. Yoshitake Kurihara (Japan) : Perpendicular PRML data channels
• Dr. J.R.Hoinville (USA) : Design and fabrication of Thin - film heads

Past Researchers:

• Mr Stuart Warner (retired) : Electronic Systems
• Dr Zhengqi Lu : Spin transport in nanoscale thin film devices
• Dr Robin Cornelius : Pulsed Field Magnetometry (Hirst Magnetics)
• Dr Steve Brown : Magnetic Recording Theory
• Dr Dmitriy Makhnovskiy : Giant Magneto-Impedance Sensor
• Mr Gary Coade : Spin Electronics
• Dr Serghei Sandacci : Magnetic Labelling Systems
• Dr Terry Donnelly (retired) : Error Correction and Signal Processing
• Dr X. Liu : Piezo Control Systems
• Dr Z. Lu : Giant Magneto Resistance
• Dr Helian Na : Micromagnetic Computer Simulation.
• Mr David Ambler : GMI Sensors
• Prof. Warwick Clegg : Magneto-Optic Sensors
• Dr. Glen Tunstall : Vibration Testing of Hard Disk Drives
• Dr. James Windmill : Magnetic Force Microscopy
• Dr. Chibesa Chilumbo : Piezo Actuators
• Dr. Kay Rydyger : Pattern Recognition Employing Compact Disk Technology
• Dr. H. Du : Sub-Micron Recording Heads
• Dr. L. Wang : High Moment Head Writing Materials
• Dr. Frank Zhigang Wang : Spin Tunnelling and Head Modelling
• Dr. Sugo Huo : Sub-micron Recording
• Dr. Muzaffar A. Akhter : MR Heads
• Dr. Yong Qing Ma : Magnetoresistive Sensors
• Dr. Rajam Chandrasekhar : Thin Film Media
• Dr. Baolin Tan : Hard Disk Servo-writers
• Dr. Daniel F. Smith : High-density credit card.
• Dr. Neil Darragh : Adaptive filters for hard disk recording.
• Mr. Graham T. French : Adaptive error-correction for a digital magnetic recording
• Mr. Kevin Stewart : MR compass.
• Mr. Tim Troup : Matrix MR read head.
• Dr. W.J. Ovenstone : Theory of MR heads
• Dr. P.J. Morgan : Design and fabrication of MR heads
• Dr. N. Mahvan : Thin Film Media
• Dr. M.L.Watson : Inter-digitated MR heads