Tribological Behavior of Amorphous Carbon Nitride Overcoats for Magnetic Thin-Film Rigid Disks

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 543-548

  Cutiongco, Eric C ^a   Li, Dong ^a   Chung, Yip Wall ^a   Singli Bhatia, C ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS-INORGANIC; LUBRICANTS-SOLID; MAGNETIC DISCS;

EID: 0029809623     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2831572     Document Type: Article

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