About the Authors

Jeongmin Hong

jehong@fiu.edu

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Eugenia Stefanescu

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ping Liang

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Nikhil Joshi

Affiliation Seagate Technology, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America

Song Xue

Affiliation MultiDimension, San Jose, California, United States of America

Dmitri Litvinov

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sakhrat Khizroev

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

NJ is employed by Seagate Technology and SX by Multidimension. Support was provided by Motorola Corporation with discussion and help with the measurements. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH ES PL SX DL SK. Performed the experiments: JH ES NJ. Analyzed the data: JH ES SK. Wrote the manuscript: JH SK.