Special Issue on Ultra High Density Information Storage Technologies
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1475
        Kazuhiro OUCHI, Jiro HOKKYO, and Yoshihisa NAKAMURA

INVITED PAPERS
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 . Extremely High-Density Magnetic Information Storage\Outlook Based
   on Analyses of Magnetic Recording Mechanisms\ ................. 1477
        Yoshihisa NAKAMURA

 . Vertical Magnetoresistive/Inductive Head ....................... 1493
        Takuji SHIBATA, Munekatsu FUKUYAMA, Norio SAITO, Yoshitaka
        WADA, and Yutaka SODA

 . Future Technology Trends on Magneto-Optical Recording .......... 1499
        Fumio KUGIYA, Takeshi MAEDA, and Masahiko TAKAHASHI

PAPERS
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 . Micromagnetic Simulation of Recording Media and Magnetoresistive
   Heads .......................................................... 1509
        Kazuetsu YOSHIDA, Yasutaro UESAKA, and Kazuhisa FUJIMOTO

 . Trial for Deep Submicron Track Width Recording ................. 1517
        Hiroaki MURAOKA and Yoshihisa NAKAMURA

 . Point Magnetic Recording Using a Force Microscope Tip on Co-Cr
   Perpendicular Media with Compositionally Separated Microstructures
            ....................................................... 1523
        Toshifumi OHKUBO, Yasushi MAEDA, and Yasuhiro KOSHIMOTO

 . Magnetic Properties of Electroless-Deposited NiFeB and
   Electrodeposited NiFe Alloy Thin Films ......................... 1530
        Madoka TAKAI, Kensuke KAGEYAMA, Sanae TAKEFUSA, Akiyoshi
        NAKAMURA,and Tetsuya OSAKA

 . Development of Particulate Recording Media with Ultrathin Magnetic
   Layer .......................................................... 1536
        Hiroo INABA, Shinji SAITOH, Toshiyuki KITAHARA, and Akira
        KASHIWAGI

 . Effects of In-Plane Hard Magnetic Layer on Demagnetization and Media
   Noise in Triple-Layered Perpendicular Recording Media .......... 1543
        Toshio ANDO, Makoto MIZUKAMI, and Toshikazu NISHIHARA

 . Control of Magnetic Properties and Microstructure of Thin Film
   Recording Media under Ultraclean Sputtering Process ............ 1550
        Takehito SHIMATSU and Migaku TAKAHASHI

 . Control of Soft Magnetism of Co-Zr and Co-Zr-Ta Films for Backlayers
   in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media ...................... 1557
        Shigeki NAKAGAWA and Masahiko NAOE

 . Deposition of Ba Ferrite Films for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
   Media Using Mixed Sputtering Gas of Xe, Ar and O2 .............. 1562
        Nobuhiro MATSUSHITA, Kenji NOMA, Shigeki NAKAGAWA, and Masahiko
        NAOE

 . Simplification of Viterbi Algorithm for (1,7) RLL Code ......... 1567
        Yoshitake KURIHARA, Hisashi OSAWA, and Yoshihiro OKAMOTO

 . Performance Evaluation and Error Propagation Analysis of
   Decision-Feedback Equalization with Maximum-Likelihood Detector  1575
        Hideki SAWAGUCHI and Wataru SAKURAI

 . High Density Optical Disk System Using Two-Dimensional Recording
            ....................................................... 1582
        Koichiro WAKABAYASHI, Hisataka SUGIYAMA, Atsushi SAITO, and
        Takeshi MAEDA

 . The Dependence of Bit Error Rate on Lens Tilt and Disk Tilt for
   Magneto-Optical Heads .......................................... 1591
        Tsutomu MATSUI

 . Holographic Motion Pictures by Hole-Burning Using Eu3{: Y2SiO5  1596
        Koichi KARAKI, Hiroko SASAKI, and Masaharu MITSUNAGA

 . High-Density Optical Storage with Multiplexed Holographic Recording
   Method ......................................................... 1601
        Tatsuya KUME, Koutarou NONAKA, and Manabu YAMAMOTO

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Integrated Electronics]

 . Automatic Transistor-Level Performance Fault Tracing by Successive
   Circuit Extraction from CAD Layout Data for VLSI in the CAD-Linked
   EB Test System ................................................. 1607
        Katsuyoshi MIURA, Koji NAKAMAE, and Hiromu FUJIOKA

 . A Distributed BIST Technique and Its Test Design Platform for VLSIs
            ....................................................... 1618
        Takeshi IKENAGA and Takeshi OGURA

[Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology]

 . Basic Analysis on SAR Distribution of Coaxial-Slot Antenna Array for
   Interstitial Microwave Hyperthermia ............................ 1624
        Lira HAMADA, Meng-Shien WU, Koichi ITO, and Haruo KASAI

[Recording and Memory Technologies]

 . Examination of High-Speed, Low-Power-Consumption Thermal Head .. 1632
        Susumu SHIBATA

[Electromagnetic Theory]

 . Eigenmode Analysis of Whispering Gallery Modes of Pillbox-Type
   Optical Resonators Utilizing the FE-BPM Formulation ............ 1638
        Anis AHMED, Ryuichi KOYA, Osami WADA, Ming WANG, and Ryuji KOGA

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-C-I, J78-C-II, No.11 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1646
 . Errata (Vol.E78-C, No.9 Contents: Terutaka TAMAI and Yasuhiro
   KURANAGA) ...................................................... 1651