A microactuator for head positioning system of hard disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 1006-1010

  Fujita, Hiroyuki ^a   Suzuki, Kosei ^a   Ataka, Manabu ^a   Nakamura, Shigeo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hard Disk Drives; Head positioning system; Microactuator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001097451     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.753824     Document Type: Article

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