Experimentally Observed Roughness Effects on the Air Bearing in the Pseudo-Contact Spacing Regime

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 2994-2996

  Donovan, Mark J ^a   Bogy, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; PRESSURE; SPUTTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR BEARING; AIR MOLECULE; INNER TRAILING EDGE; OUTER TRAILING EDGE; PSEUDO-CONTACT SPACING REGIME; ROUGHNESS EFFECTS; SLIDERS;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0029406631     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.490248     Document Type: Article

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