Mechanical design and manufacture of an advanced multimodule tape head

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 67-74

  Lakshmikumaran, Anand V ^a   Barber, Terry J ^a   Torline, Joseph E ^a  

^a Sun StorageTek   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour; Design; Interconnects; Magnetic tape recording head; Manufacture; Multimodule assembly; Tribology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002734862     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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