Increased disturbance rejection for hard disk drives by using accelerometers

Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-103

  Pannu, Satinderpall Singh ^a   Horowitz, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0009468632     PISSN: 10998047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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