Air bearing design, optimization, stability analysis and verification for sub-25nm flying

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-109

  Lu, Sha ^a   Hu, Yong ^a   O'Hara, Matthew ^a   Bogy, David B ^a   Bhatia, C Singh ^b   Hsia, Yiao Tee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

AIR BEARINGS; AREAL RECORDING DENSITY; FLY HEIGHT SLIDERS; NEAR CONTACT RECORDING;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0029733583     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.477558     Document Type: Article

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