Suppression of disk flutter by a squeeze air-bearing plate

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 33-40

  Ono, Kyosuke ^a   Maeda, Eitaro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Damping; Disk flutter; Flutter suppression; Hard disk drive; Squeeze air bearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008325710     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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