Air Bearing Design Considerations for Constant Fly Height Applications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 417-423

  Chhabra, Devendra S ^a   Bolasna, Sanford A ^a   Dorius, Lee K ^a   Samuelson, Laurence S ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR LUBRICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; MAGNETIC HEADS; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

AIR BEARING DESIGN; AIR BEARING SURFACE; CONSTANT FLY HEIGHT; INNER DIAMETER; MACHINED TAPER FLAT; OUTER DIAMETER; SKEW SENSITIVITY; SLIDER; STORAGE CAPACITY; TRANSVERSE PRESSURE CONTOUR;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0028384825     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.312296     Document Type: Article

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